she doesn't know legos come in girl colors. Girls can make some great constructs from the girl brucks
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.â€
“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.â€
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bainbridgereview.com ...
she doesn't know legos come in girl colors. Girls can make some great constructs from the girl brucks
Using “girl” colored Legos is a micro-aggression and violates any girls right to her safe zone.
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.
When we cut and paste, we can get rid of the funny symbols by removing and inserting our own apostrophe and parenthesis.
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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Didn't think guns were allowed in public school.
99-1 odds she’s a dyke.
Gender discrimination. . .its against the law. . .unless it is against white makes.
How do you fix that weird symbol thing?
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.
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.
“The beauty of it was making whatever you could dream up”
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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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I couldn’t even paste from source code into my FR profile page without getting that crap. Sad state of affairs.
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.
She went with pink an purple Legos: the girls ignored it,
and the boys expanded their color palettes.
See my Post 38.
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