I don't even want to get into the difference between my elementary school playground when I was a child versus today (I drive by it everyday en route to my college, and it still gets me...)
We could do lots of things, but playing Power Rangers was not one of them. This was 2nd grade, 1993-1994, back in Prospect Heights, Illinois. If you played Power Rangers, you were on the wall. You had to stand with you back against the side of the school for the duration of recess. The recess monitor was a real joker, always coming up with new ways to tell the kids to get on the wall.
"Hey Peter! Get on the wall."
"You like playing Power Rangers?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you like getting on the wall?"
"Who's your favorite Power Ranger?"
"The Red Ranger."
"Mine is the one that has to get on the wall."
"It's awfully hard to be in a robot when you're on the wall."
It's weird though, because she was the librarian, and was nice to me and others outside of recess.