Where is the barf alert? If they had just supervised the kids playing and made them share in the first place this little power struggle would have never happened. All this article proves is that the adults waited until a situation was out of hand before they stepped in and taught the kids how to share their toys.
They took away the legos for 5 months while they indoctrinated the kids about how it was bad to have power over others, and how important conformity was.
Then they gave the kids the legos back. Of course the kids did exactly what the teachers expected them to do — they didn’t want to lose their legos for another 5 months while they sat through stupid games that make no sense.
Too bad, because the kids were learning a valuable lesson about how things are worth only what value others place on them — if they had played more, and the teachers had encouraged people to build things OTHER than legotown, soon some kids would devalue the “valuable” legos out of necesity, and the kids in “power” would realise the law of supply and demand.
Good gravy! Do you mean to say that these morons should have forgone a golden opportunity to massage their own egos by performing experiments on these 8 year olds like so many lab rats and just give them some Legos and let them have.....<gasp> FUN?
Surely you jest.