The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has criticised parents who fail to adhere to videogame age restrictions.
The association's general secretary Mary Bousted has said that students are being allowed to stay up till early morning, playing games inappropriate to their age, and are becoming desensitised to aggression and bloodshed.
She also raised a more general concern that the time children could spend interacting with friends or playing outdoors was being eaten into by an over-exposure to screen-based entertainment, harming their long-term development and education.
Bousted's comments come ahead of the ATL's annual conference next week during which members are expected to call for "stringent legislation" to be placed on the videogame industry, though exactly what this will entail, and what effort will be expended trying to better educate parents, is unclear.
The ATL's Annual Conference 2012 takes place on April 2, in Manchester.

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