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Why We Banned Legos
Rethinking Schools ^
| Winter 2006
| Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin
Posted on 07/25/2007 7:37:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist societyNo, it conveys a corrupt and oppressive government that won't allow the other children into the free market system of building and playing with Legos. Sheesh, everyone can see that.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:04:55 AM PDT
by
Tired of Taxes
(Dad, I will always think of you.)
To: Old Sarge
So, these teachers just observed that their socialism and anti-capitalism are
antithetical to human nature.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:07:29 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Lorianne
the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.Interesting. Kinda tells me that left alone, folks will gravitate toward a capitalist system, NOT a socialist one. I guess that's what alarmed the socially liberal teachers who consider capitalism "unjust and oppressive".
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:13:01 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Blind Eye Jones
You hit it right on the head.
Human nature ABHORS the concepts of collectivism outside of the family, except in those cases where someone has greed for the property of others.
These teachers are demonstrating that their ideology cannot be substituted in human nature and society unless it is done through force.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:13:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Lorianne
Hilltop is located in an affluent Seattle neighborhood, and, with only a few exceptions, the staff and families are white; the families are upper-middle class and socially liberal. Kendra is the lead teacher for the Big Kid program; two additional teachers, Erik and Harmony, staff the program. Ann is the mentor teacher at Hilltop, working closely with teachers to study and plan curriculum from children's play and interactions. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA... yea and how many of their affluent liberal parents are letting the homeless or less privaleged use the extra thousand or two thousand or more extra square feet of home space that their's have over the norm?
Bunch of hypocritical white guilt idiots.
To: Lorianne
Just wait ‘til these ditzes find out that Legos are made by a for-profit capitalist company that protects its valuable brand aggressively and doesn’t share its profits with anybody and everybody who decides they want a cut.
To: DocRock
I immediately thought of the videos of terrorist being splattered by the Apaches that I have seen all over the internet. When I got to shake her hand in the greeting line, I said, "I've seen your work on the internet... nice job!" and her reply was, "Awesome, huh?".One of my nephews flew an Apache Longbow D in Afghanistan. My brother (his Dad) was SO jealous!!
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:19:53 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Mercat
“These people are just like Delores Umbrage.”
Book 5 of the Potter series convinced me that, despite the liberal decline of the UK in general, at least the redoubtable Mrs. Rowling is on our side.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:21:09 AM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: SoftballMominVA
The ideology of the present crop of teachers is as predictable and deterministic as any other cookie cutter product, and is the actual atrocity on display in the article. And until the production line making the little ideologues is smashed, education in the modern world is completely screwed. Smashing it starts with abolishing the public schools (and tenure, incidentally).
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:31:46 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: tutstar
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:39:17 AM PDT
by
tutstar
(Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
To: EyeGuy
I’m rereading Order of the Phoenix now before seeing the movie and before reading the new book. The Dummies who are sure that Bush wants to send them to Walmart detention camps probably think that she embodies the evils of the Bush administration but their logic is always so twisted as to not make any sense. But the whole concept of the ministry of magic not wanting the students to learn to defend themselves has to be based on the teachers’ unions.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:39:30 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Old Sarge
When do teachers have the unfettered curriculum right to bash american ecconomics? They have curriculum committees etc.
If a teacher taught an unapproved lesson plan about george wasshington they would be fired.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:47:26 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Mercat
“Im rereading Order of the Phoenix now before seeing the movie and before reading the new book.”
My strategy exactly; I love to read a book right before viewing the movie, particularly a series as true to the books as the Potter movies have been.
“But the whole concept of the ministry of magic not wanting the students to learn to defend themselves has to be based on the teachers unions.”
Probably, but I was thinking it was a screaming metaphor for gun “control” laws
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posted on
07/26/2007 9:43:52 AM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: aruanan
These are wealthy people. I suppose they got that way through “negotiated decision-making, collaboration, and collectivity.” I think I’m going to puke.
To: JasonC
Perhaps, but the school in this article was private, not public. Should it be closed also?
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posted on
07/26/2007 11:43:23 AM PDT
by
SoftballMominVA
(Never argue with an idiot. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience)
To: SoftballMominVA
obviously, the school has no problem engaging in the capitalistic system when it benefits them. Naturally! It's that Animal Farm mentality.
To: Lorianne
Why I continue to say that liberalism is caused by inadequate and poorly functioning mental equipment.
To: PetroniusMaximus
Good place to bump this thread.
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posted on
07/26/2007 12:10:13 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: DocRock
Great story. I have a friend who flies the Apaches - she’s a tough chick and probably almost as brilliant (actually changing to Warrant Officer so she can fly them for the rest of her career). ;)
To: Lorianne
And all the cookies lay neatly in place slumbering peacefully as Ann and Kendra lounged passionately on the soft carpet amid a sea of Legos, lost in the idyllic afterglow of shared conquest.
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posted on
07/26/2007 12:35:57 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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