so because girls DON'T WANT to play with Legos, boys CAN'T... and the WAR on boys continues
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."
A condom and cucumber only Kindergarten. How cute.
Send their own LEGOs to school with them, what she going to do about it?
What a frigging idiot...as a little girl I spent hours playing with blocks and Lincoln logs with my little brother...I’m not going to say more...I’ll get banned
Tackling gender inequality by creating it???
Does she fight world hunger by not letting her students eat lunch?
Legos help to develop the brain. Cant have that dontchaknow?
That would be the old Erector Set. Can’t have that, though, it sounds too similar to an erection.
She thinks little girls passively coerced into building things will find out they like it/it isn’t that hard and will be more likely to go into STEM than to stick with softer stuff.
Whether that is worthwhile or not, throwing the boys under the bus is just gratuitous snot-baggery.
Some girls want to play with the blocks and like to use their imagination too. I made cannons out of my dad’s spent shotgun shells until he taught me to shoot and I had my own.(Molly Pitcher) I also used to build model airplanes and put together engines and other things that came in “kits”. My grandmother gave me a train set for Christmas when I was about 5-6. I’ve always liked anything but “Dolls” which I considered totally useless. I didn’t like “Fairy Tales” either. It didn’t make me less of a woman either. I have three wonderful children and six grandchildren.
Where this idiot “teacher” is off base is to attempt to restrict play things that indicate the natural inclinations of that young person, regardless of sex. Women engineers and scientists, (Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale,many women aviators, Frontier Women in this country ) are ample examples of exceptions to “Society’s Rules.” And then of course we should not forget Joan of Arc!
Welcome to the city of Seassholes.
Leaving that leftist hellhole was one of the best moves in my life.
They have already succeeded with cultural castration.
The American boy/male was emasculated a couple of decades ago.
An Erector Set! I had one. Company started around the time of the First World War, I think.
Erecter set? I had one and built many a project.
Government public school is child abuse.
Erector sets were awsome! Not only did they help the brain in learning basic engineering concepts, but they required learning how to use simple tools for assembly. I absolutely loved mine as a small boy and I’m certain the things I was learning while ‘playing’ with it helped me in developing the knowledge necessary used in the construction trades I spent a portion of my life involved in. ‘Toys’ like that should be in every boys arsenal, but I’m not even sure if they still exist or not? So many small, pointy, pieces that the lawyers could have a field day with.
so because girls DON'T WANT to play with Legos, boys CAN'T... and the WAR on boys continues
No paycheck for teacher -- or for the admininstrators who countenance this B***S***.
Public schools are an abomination to the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
If you believe me, good! If you don’t, too bad ‘cause it’s true.
See: This Hilarious Video Mocks The Bizarre Liberalism In Schools — a film by Neel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3363552/posts
I had one of those (an Erector Set, not an erection) when I was a boy. My Dad passed it down to me so it was probably from the late 20s or early 30s. I had more fun and learned a lot about construction, levers and pulleys, gears, and electric motors. Wonderful toy.
“Erector sets were awesome!”
I don’t know if the A.C. Gilbert Company is still around. I remember the newer stuff had a lot more plastic instead of brass and steel. I also had two of their other products - a chemistry set and an American Flyer electric train.
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