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Blakely teacher restricts Lego-play to her girl students in the pursuit of gender equity
Bainbridge Island Review ^ | November 9, 2015 | Jessica Shelton

Posted on 11/21/2015 12:25:03 PM PST by QT3.14

In Karen Keller’s kindergarten classroom, boys can’t play with Legos.

They can have their pick of Tinkertoys and marble tracks, but the colorful bricks are “girls only.”

“I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head,” she said. “I tell them, ‘You’ll have a turn’ because I don’t want them to feel bad.”

Although her approach might anger some parents, Keller is sticking to her guns: It’s all part of a plan to get girls building during “free choice,” the 40 minutes of unstructured play time embedded at the end of every school day.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bainbridgeisland; education; equality; legosagenda; pc; schools; washington
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To: rwa265

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/girls-only-lego-club-teacher-conducts-controversial-experiment-promote-gender-equality


21 posted on 11/21/2015 12:47:03 PM PST by rwa265
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To: QT3.14
It’s all part of a plan to get girls building during “free choice,” the 40 minutes of unstructured play time embedded at the end of every school day.

Am I the only one who notes the irony? Planned, but unstructured play, indeed.
22 posted on 11/21/2015 12:47:12 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: QT3.14
she is an ignorant bitch.

she doesn't know legos come in girl colors. Girls can make some great constructs from the girl brucks


23 posted on 11/21/2015 12:48:40 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: bert

Using “girl” colored Legos is a micro-aggression and violates any girls right to her safe zone.


24 posted on 11/21/2015 12:52:28 PM PST by LukeL
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To: rwa265
The teacher is quoted as saying: "I always tell the boys, 'You're going to have a turn' -- and I'm like, 'Yeah, when hell freezes over' in my head," she said. "I tell them, 'You'll have a turn' because I don't want them to feel bad."

The school district says: "Following the release of a recent news article, the Bainbridge Island School District (BISD) has received inquiries that reflect inaccurate perceptions about student access to Legos in Karen Keller’s kindergarten classroom at Blakely Elementary School. In keeping with a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education grant, Ms. Keller gave girls a designated time to play with the building toys during a 30-minute 'free-choice' time block in September 2015. This isolated, short-term practice ended in October. All students in all classrooms have and will continue to have access to all instructional and noninstructional materials.

So, we're supposed to believe that the local paper held the article for months before publishing, that the September 'test' took place and everything was equal come October.

It's November, someone is lying through their teeth.

25 posted on 11/21/2015 12:55:27 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: QT3.14

26 posted on 11/21/2015 12:57:10 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: QT3.14

When we cut and paste, we can get rid of the funny symbols by removing and inserting our own apostrophe and parenthesis.


27 posted on 11/21/2015 12:58:30 PM PST by doug from upland (The ultimate in foolishness -- "'Romney is just as bad as Obama" WTF?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I just got in after seeing the movie “Room”. (Terrific)

The young boy in it has problems adjusting and Legos really helped.

Odd that I see a Lego post. I would make such a stink over this it wouldn’t be pretty.

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28 posted on 11/21/2015 1:02:10 PM PST by Mears
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To: QT3.14
"Keller is sticking to her guns"

Didn't think guns were allowed in public school.

29 posted on 11/21/2015 1:03:00 PM PST by fulltlt
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To: QT3.14

99-1 odds she’s a dyke.


30 posted on 11/21/2015 1:03:08 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: QT3.14

Gender discrimination. . .its against the law. . .unless it is against white makes.


31 posted on 11/21/2015 1:04:30 PM PST by Hulka
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To: BlessedBeGod

How do you fix that weird symbol thing?


32 posted on 11/21/2015 1:04:58 PM PST by Hulka
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To: QT3.14

The more fundamental problem is that there is so little play time allowed kindergarten now that there is not enough time for everyone to use the Legos.


33 posted on 11/21/2015 1:04:59 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Mears

Legos were my favorite “indoors” toy as a kid, but they took a lot of the fun and imagination out of it with the marketing tie-in kits to make specific things. The beauty of it was making whatever you could dream up, not from following a set of instructions.


34 posted on 11/21/2015 1:05:26 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
father?, what is a “father”...so quaint!! father? you mean a male type person, so old fashion....
35 posted on 11/21/2015 1:06:36 PM PST by B212
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To: RegulatorCountry

“The beauty of it was making whatever you could dream up”

That’s how it was when my kids were young-—60s and 70s.

We dumped the boxes of Legos and let them go at it.

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36 posted on 11/21/2015 1:08:01 PM PST by Mears
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To: Blennos

I couldn’t even paste from source code into my FR profile page without getting that crap. Sad state of affairs.


37 posted on 11/21/2015 1:11:44 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

A few years back I guest lectured at an evening class at George Mason.

I discussed multiculturalism and how you can’t be liberal and support women’s rights but at the same time be multicultural and “respect” other cultures that discriminate against women.

A woman in the class, an elementary school teacher, bragged about how she teaches math and makes the boys sit in the back of the class, doesn’t call on them, telling the class, “sit back boys, its the girls turn”

She was smug when she said it, thinking the rest of the class would applaud her.

What surprised me was the class, all except for one, were teachers and female, and they ALL attacked her for doing this. They rhetorically smacked her down for — in their mind — attacking and marginalizing THEIR boys. The said they would never allow their son to be in her class or a class that threatened their boys in such a manner.


38 posted on 11/21/2015 1:13:05 PM PST by Hulka
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To: bert

She went with pink an purple Legos: the girls ignored it,
and the boys expanded their color palettes.


39 posted on 11/21/2015 1:13:12 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: Army Air Corps

See my Post 38.


40 posted on 11/21/2015 1:13:53 PM PST by Hulka
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