My playground experience is one thing, but these kids are being bullied by the Sun, the Mail and, crucially, their readers, and that bullying includes the exposure of their upbringing whenever a potential employer or other interested party Googles their name for the foreseeable future.
If you compare Kano to a home computer of the late 1980s, such as the Spectrum, there is initially a far more linear feel — given how much step by step instruction is taking place with Kano Blocks — vs the free playground experience of a machine like the Spectrum which landed the user right in a command line view of Spectrum Basic.
In fact, in my playground experience, the common (and irritating) refrain is "boys will be boys".
Straddling the line between laboratory and playground, Experience is perhaps most successful as a re-imagining of the museum space and the kinds of experiences visitors might find there.
Instead of easing you into a cosy virtual playground, these experiences jolt another world into your own.
Whereas in the earlier work real children took part in a kind of performance playground, in Experience five adult dancers are successively "birthed" on to the stage, yelping and yowling through Darkin's legs as she stands locked in embrace with David Reakes.
The worlds created by electronic games are more like playgrounds where experience is created by the interaction between a player and a programme.
To him, this was a vast playground, just brimming with new experiences and experiments.
For many children raised in comfortable circumstances, encountering a bully on the playground is their first experience of powermongery.
But they now felt exiled from the playground fraternity of shared experience: "I hate it when everyone else is laughing and playing," Jake explained, "because how can I join in when they're not thinking about any of the things I'm thinking about?" Jake's teacher gave him a diary in which to write down all the things that were making him angry.
