Now I've heard everything.


Sent to me by Jan E.

From Fox News ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261803,00.html  at bottom of page)
Banning LEGOs
Teachers at a Seattle day care center decided to ban LEGO building blocks — those colorful little bricks kids use to build such creations as robots, monster trucks, space ships and vast futuristic cities. The Hilltop Children's Center bills itself as a nationally recognized, non-profit, non-religious facility. So why did the teachers toss the LEGOs?
We'll let them explain: "We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the LEGOs out of the classroom. 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."
After months of what the teachers called "social justice exploration" — they let the LEGOs back in — but kids were only allowed to build "public structures" of standard sizes in a village dedicated to what they called "collectivity and consensus."
—FOX News Channel's Martin Hill contributed to this report.
My comments
The story is at the BOTTOM of the page of the Fox news link above. The story is also on National Review on line. The school explains itself here. I wrote back to Jan, etc.:
Oh, my, mustn't allow children to develop ownership ideas.  Otherwise, they may grow up and claim authority over a day care and ... oh, wait.

Hypocrisy comes in many flavors.  I like Rocky Road.  :-)

Posted: Fri - April 6, 2007 at 11:16 PM           | |

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