If you ever lobbed a spitball, launched a paper airplane or pranked a friend in class, you might remember how most of these stories ended: with the mischief-making items confiscated and stashed in the teacher’s desk drawer.
The same holds for a famous scene in “A Christmas Story,” when Ralphie’s third-grade teacher, Miss Shields, confiscates the fake teeth students have put in their mouths.
When she opens her desk drawer to deposit the items she has taken, you see all the other contraband — including a yo-yo, a rubber frog, a Slinky and Groucho Marx glasses she has already seized.
Which leads us to PS 87 on the Upper West Side.
There, young girls are no longer allowed to bring Rainbow Loom bracelets, the multicolored, rubber-band jewelry they make, into school.
The school’s been taking some grief for this ban from those who see it as an unnecessary crackdown on harmless fun.
For their part, school authorities complain the bracelets have become too much of a distraction.
If the worst we can say about these young girls is that they spend too much time obsessing about rubber-band bracelets, we’re in good shape. In our view, this is one for the teacher in the classroom to decide — with the help of a big locked drawer.