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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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posted on
07/25/2007 7:37:10 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
These people are just like Delores Umbrage.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:39:10 PM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Lorianne
I stopped reading at this sentence:
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.
I am glad The Boy is in the parochial system.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:40:58 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: Lorianne
Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin
So do Ann and Kendra have something going on?
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:41:22 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Lorianne
Seattle, what do you expect ...
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:41:59 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: Lorianne
Why I banned jackasses from teaching my children.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:42:47 PM PDT
by
incredulous joe
(Vote for Christian Bagge - www.energizerkeepgoinghalloffame.com)
To: Lorianne
"...an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded."These are KIDS using Legos, for Pete's sake! Socialists don't know how to have fun, and won't let anyone else have fun, either.
To: Old Sarge
It would be awful if the children understood and believed in our current form of government, wouldn’t it? /sarc
To: Lorianne
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.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:44:23 PM PDT
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: Lorianne
I thought she resigned fron CNN this week?
To: Mercat
We invited the children to work in small, collaborative teams to build Pike Place Market with Legos. We set up this work to emphasize negotiated decision-making, collaboration, and collectivity. We wanted the children to practice the big ideas we'd been exploring. We wanted Lego Pike Place Market to be an experience of group effort and shared ownership: If Legotown was an embodiment of individualism, Lego Pike Place Market would be an experiment in collectivity and consensus.
We offered the children some guidelines to steer them into a new way of interacting with each other and with the Legos: "Create teams of two or three people, decide as a team on some element of Pike Place Market that you'll build, and then start constructing." The first day or two, children created signs warning the other teams "Do Not Touch" their collaboratively constructed vegetable, fruit, and crafts stands. As they settled into this construction project, though, the teams softened the rigid boundaries around their work and began to leave notes for each other describing their work and proposing next steps for Pike Place Market. We celebrated this shift, seeing it as a sign that the children were beginning to integrate the thinking of the last months into their interactions.
These women are evil and politically manipulative.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:46:54 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Old Sarge
I am glad The Boy is in the parochial system.Keep an eye on things. Parochial school ain't what it used to be. (Sister Estelle would disapprove of my use of the word "ain't".) Liberation Theology, Sex Positive education, Feminism, etc.. Beware.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:48:04 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
To: aruanan
These women are evil and politically manipulative.Probably ugly, too.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:49:20 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
To: Lorianne
“...a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded.
these are bolsheviks.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:50:37 PM PDT
by
ken21
( b 4 fred.)
To: Lorianne
Boy I bet when these teachers were in school, if someone demanded to hold their lunch money, they willingly gave it to them. No fuss, no matter.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:51:25 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Lorianne
It was my understanding that the children instead ordered their Legos from a Chinese manufacturer using wood from Brazilian rain forest, to sequester carbon, and built their own subdivision with a wall to keep the illegals out.
And then there was something about their teachers and diazepam also...but I forget what that was about.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:51:34 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Lorianne
Wow. It’s like reading The Comunist Manifesto...
* Collectivity is a good thing:
* Personal expression matters:
* Shared power is a valued goal:
* Moderation and equal access to resources are things to strive for...
* All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure.
* Lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals.
* All structures will be standard sizes.
To: Lorianne
Oh good heavens, I thought this was a story about a fellow Freeper named Legos who had been banned. Time for my meds.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:52:34 PM PDT
by
mupcat
To: PetroniusMaximus
Make that the Communist Manifesto.
To: Lorianne
My letter to the author:
Dear Ms. Pelo: I read with interest the piece written by you at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml. In retrospect, I can only thank a benevolent God that my child will not receive instruction at the Hilltop Children' Center [sic].
Homework: Please read and contemplate Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Gods Of The Copybook Headings" [http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm]. Compare and contrast Kipling's point of view to the "values of equality and democracy" that you and your colleague hope to instill in your students. In view of historical events, which value system is more reflective of actual reality as experienced by human beings?
Sincerely,
[B-Chan]
I can't wait to read the response.
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posted on
07/25/2007 7:55:49 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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