![]() NDPA’s 6-9 grades combined have a few more than 350 students. ![]() In the end, 140 students handed in signed permission slips to join the gaming club. By the third class, they were out of permission slips. “We printed about 50 permission slips, thinking that would be more than enough,” says Pingree. ![]() This school year, Pingree and the club’s other teachers set about recruiting for the club, going class to class, handing out permission slips to interested students. A handful of students signed up and played D&D almost every Friday for the whole year. Last school year, teacher Cameron Pingree started a gaming club at North Davis Preparatory Academy (NDPA) in Layton, inviting students to come learn how to play Dungeons & Dragons. ![]() Students perch in their chairs, scour their lists of spells and items and call out in dismay or triumph, as the various Dungeon Masters do their best to react to the often maddening exploits of each respective adventuring party. At a layton junior high school, on an average Friday afternoon, tables filled with students playing Dungeons & Dragons fill up two classrooms and spill out into the hallway and across a second-story landing. ![]()
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