Posted on 11/22/2015 10:28:35 AM PST by HomerBohn
A Bainbridge Island teacher is giving a lesson that has parents on edge. The lesson plan: Boys can't play with Legos.
The Bainbridge Island Review reports that Karen Keller, a kindergarten teacher at Blakely Elementary, is tackling the issue of gender equity by not allowing the boys in her class to play with Legos.
The Lego-restricted lesson plan doesn't make a whole lot of sense for KIRO Radio's Dori Monson.
"If I was a parent of a boy in that class, I'd get them out of there ... we've gone insane in our public schools," he said. "This Bainbridge Island kindergarten class is just another example of how insane it's all gotten."
Teachers who have an agenda are not teachers, they are indoctrinators and they shouldn’t be allowed around children.
Karen needs to have her neck measured for that gigantic millstone that will be affixed prior to casting her into the ocean.
Is she fired yet?
What’s next? Castration?
The liberals running the education system are mad.
It’s okay to teach sexism, as long as it’s “good” sexism? Liberals are insane.
Boys don’t need her stinkin legos - they’ll just make Lincoln log houses out of her tampons.
What is she thinking??? BOYS and GIRLS both play with legos.
I read this thing three time and I still do not get what this mental defective even THINKS is the purpose of her mentally defective ban. She should be locked in a mental ward. Whoever hired her should be fired and denied all pension rights.
Girls love Legos , too .
Which leads which, the toys lead the way they play or the way they play inspires the toys? Obviously the latter. My nephew (when a toddler) used to take his sisters’ barbies, point the leg and shoot. They were weapons and nothing more.
Boys might do something like - oh, I don’t know - build a WALL !!!
something is fishy don’t see liberal loose Karens name:
http://www.bisd303.org/site/Default.aspx?PageType=1&SiteID=13&ChannelID=115&DirectoryType=6
My oldest son when small used to built forts and walls with playing cards.
Why We Banned Legos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871687/posts
I made aircraft carriers out of shoe boxes and fashioned the jets out of tinfoil. When they bombed an enemy city, I would use torn-up black hefty bags as the smoke.
Give boys time, and they can create worlds out of anything.
Taking Legos from them is just cruel because it tells them that their natural desire to control and change their environment by building and creating is “wrong”. And it hurts the girls that dont even want to play with the blocks.
The school is now backing off this story. According to the school, the teacher never banned the boys from Legos, but she did create a girls-only time period for Legos.
As a mother of only sons, and someone who knows many other mothers of only sons, I can tell you that, in the past 20 years, we’ve all had difficulty finding STEM programs for boys. Despite it all, our sons embraced STEM, and LEGO has been a big part of that.
I used to fry ants with a a magnifying glass.
She needs to STHU...
Legos, Duplos, and Mega Blocks are amazing toys which drive the left brain a bit.
LOL! That was life before the internet entertainment stuff for sure. I guess that’s why older people dont need “safe spaces” and “hug boxes”.
Super Glue her chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSX7iT0n65Q
“Sex Power — Why women were different and men were expendable”
Lindybeige has an amusing collection of videos on historical weapons (and more). Principle message here: having women fight in wartime is a good way for a society to commit suicide.
There is a bit about the Kibbutz experiment in which boys and girls were raised exactly alike. And when they grew up, the young men decided to pursue dangerous jobs (firefighter, police, soldier, etc.) and the young women decided to pursue more nurturing jobs. Because women are women and men are men.
How dare we foster another John Galt. FWIW, one of my most brilliant inganeer friends was building structures via Lincoln Logs that were way beyond his young years. They are trying to downgrade us, this is another attempt to take away our American Exceptionalism, this is a key component of the engineering world visualization in your minds eye of what you want to create, Legos let you build it.
What would they say to that toy ( who's name escapes me ) was essentially all angle steel pieces with holes in them to build structures and vehicles with nuts and bolts?
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