Posted on 03/28/2007 6:06:33 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Not long ago I started reading an article about a school that banned Legos. At first I thought it might be because they were discovered to contain trans-fats or emit second-hand smoke, but the reason was a little more Marxist than that.
My kids play with Legos on a fairly consistent basis, but little did I realize that the little interlocking colorful hunks of building plastic are actually teaching children about the evils of private property ownership. Cool!
So after I went out and purchased a few more tubs of the greedy capitalist-creating blocks tools of the vast right wing conspiracy no doubt (this has Halliburtons fingerprints all over it) I went back and finished the article:
A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Childrens Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of Rethinking Schools magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.
According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate Legotown, but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore the inequities of private ownership. According to the teachers, Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.
Not to mention the demolished Legotown was the perfect chance to show the kids what a city run by socialists and communists ends up looking like.
But, alas, after months of indoctrination by the feel-good Gestapo, the evil toys were allowed back in the presence of the students, with some caveats:
Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that All structures are public structures and All structures will be standard sizes. The teachers quote the children:
A house is good because it is a community house.
We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.
Its important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.
Equal? The same? Standard? Arent these the same types of bilge-tanks on the SS Chomsky who constantly harp on about were like snowflakes, were all different while Peter, Paul & Mary plays on a potato-powered radio in their Prius? If they are, it ends there.
The architects of equal power movements always make sure of one thing: Their amount of power is way more equal than yours and if you dont believe me, try getting this school to meet you halfway on changing its curriculum.
As AL Gores copy of the liberal dictionary teaches us, we is always defined as you, not me.
Im off now to help my kids build a Lego unemployment office, a privately owned building of course, where well pretend that educators such are standing in a Lego unemployment line until the second coming of Lego Lenin.
By banning everything personally threatening to the environment, social welfare and teachers unions, educators are better able to teach students what makes this country great: freedom
Why cant we teach our kids the "truth" The pilgrims were failing miserably under a comunal system and only the concept of private ownership turned that around.
Suddenly people wanted to work the feilds because they were their fields!
Private ownership is what made America prosper!
Yes, PC is evil. And, I don't know about you, but watching people you thought you knew be sucked in by it (after opposing it) just makes it all the more repulsive. Commie, really.
Yes. I've been accused of having no PC bone in my body. I think I'll keep it that way. :o)
"This reminds me of the sci fi story which has the premise of society intentionally kills children which are too smart"
It reminded me of the book by James Clavell "The Children's Story". This is one of the creepiest books I've ever read. It's about brainwashing/teachers "shaming" kids with the so-called wrong thoughts, etc.
LOL! Well, let's hope so! You'll be a good influence on us here! ;-)
I have never cared for many things PC. I, um, haven't always, well, put another way, I've been more 'centrist' years ago. College, the lefties appealed to my 'heart', professors urged us ladies to be involved, always to the left. (Feminism has failed our generation, oh, let me count the ways!) And, at the same time, repulsed by the unionist Dems I had grown up watching locally. Yet I was still far too 'conservative' for many of my friends. Now, we are miles apart politically.
Fortunately, almost all of my drinking buds turned out to be conservatives. Probably because I bullied them into it. LOL
L0L LEGO mausoleums With little lego lennins L0L
Yes, that's what I meant to say.
LOL! Oh, of course, beer! (Or other similar beverages.) I've been going about this all wrong.... ;-)
You got that right!
They must have one about this size too.
How many parents do you suppose are aware of it?
Well hell, they should have loved that. Imagine a child using left wing zoning laws to enforce separation of people.
I would assume all of them - it is in Wasington state, after all.........no offense intended to our wonderful Washington FReepers.
Exactly. Which is why I couldn't care less what they teach.
LOL! I have a ten year old son as well, and he has a "wealth" of Legos.
My dearest wish is for the Bionicles to stop evolving. Please Lego, make it stop! :)
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