good lord
there are so many ways to have kids build something like this without causing problems.
But its the teachers and their stupid rules that made the problems.
Why did they not just give each kid a random bag of pieces, and let the kids be cretaive using the pieces they got? Thats the beauty of Legos, you can make ANYTHING with them.
It’s a perfect example of how creating new rules in an attempt to regulate activity fails miserably.
So much for the folks that say church based schools are better than public schools.
“We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity,” Pelo and Pelojoaquin wrote. “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.”
So after “months of social justice exploration,” Pelo and Pelojoaquin reintroduced the Legos, but only after the children had learned that “collectivity is a good thing.” And with the return of the colorful toys came three new laws.
All Lego structures are now public structures. All kids 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, and all structures will be standard sizes.
“Our intention,” wrote teachers Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin, “was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.”
What a pantload this is!!!!
The kids with the vision to build Legotown became the bad guys of course because they assumed that that they, the builders, would reap a reward for their vision, hard work and industriousness.
But no!!! We can’t have kids rise to their level of potential. Others not so gifted might suffer from self esteem problems. So let’s mess with their heads, and go through a tortuous mental process to suck all of the individuality and creativity out of the builder bees in the hive.
The whole problem is that the number of Legos was rationed to begin with, like in all Communist societies. The kids came up with their own system for valuing and apportioning building materials—pretty good for a bunch seven and eight year olds. Instead of letting the kids go through the process and re-build and let their creativity soar, oh no, the ever so bright Marxist teachers had to show them the error of their ways.
People like these teachers have never achieved anything, and can only reduce those who produce down to the level of the lowest common denominator.
Anyone who loves their child needs to take their kid out of this Marxist inspired, and run like hell away from this God awful place.
Leggo my lego!
They still have nine tenths as a consolation.
Ann Pelo on the military industrial complex as taught to preschoolers:
According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum standards, and daycare accreditation, “That’s Not Fair! A Teacher’s Guide to Activism with Young Children” is “an exciting and informative” resource for “developing community-building, deep thinking, and partnership.to change the world for the better.”
On page 106 of the guide, co-author Ann Pelo details an activism project she initiated at a Seattle preschool after her students spotted a Blue Angels rehearsal overhead as they played in a local park. “Those are Navy airplanes,” Pelo lectured the toddlers. “They’re built for war, but right now, there is no war, so the pilots learn how to do fancy tricks in their planes.” The kids returned to playing, but Pelo wouldn’t let it rest. The next day she pushes the children to “communicate their feelings about the Blue Angels.”
Pelo proudly describes her precociously politicized students’ handiwork:
“They drew pictures of planes with Xs through them: ‘This is a crossed-off bombing plane.’ They drew bomb factories labeled: ‘No.’
“Respect our words, Blue Angels. Respect kids’ words. Don’t kill people.”
“If you blow up our city, we won’t be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won’t be happy because there are some good books there that I haven’t read yet.”
Pelo reports that the children “poured out their strong feelings about the Blue Angels in their messages and seemed relieved and relaxed.” But it’s obvious this cathartic exercise was less for the children and more for the ax-grinding Pelo, who readily admits that she “didn’t ask for parents’ input about their letter-writing - she didn’t genuinely want it. She felt passionately that they had done the right thing, and she wasn’t interested in hearing otherwise.”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin041603.asp
The authors clearly have a political motive, not an educational one....damn, these people probably support the ACLU too.
This is yet another sign of the left and its agenda to brainwash our children.
The teachers use their hierarchical authority to impose their rules on the kids. Some animals are more equal than others.
Lesbianese Marxist anti-Legites.
Just make the pie bigger — BUY SOME MORE LEGGOS!
Interesting read about how these three teachers are teaching socialism to America’s children. My God, they took the legos away from the kids for 5 months in order to teach the kids about socialist government! All they had to do was teach the kids to share to share the legos. Each kid could have gotten a variety of pieces to make their own structures, and then their could have been “public” legos for the “public” areas of town. Plus, they could have gone to Walmart (these socialists probably HATE Walmart) and bought a couple big boxes of legos to make the selection bigger.
Golly..what did they find when they dissected the li’l tykes’ brains?
Now that sounds like a vibrant, thriving, fun community.
After nearly two months of observing the children's Legotown construction, we decided to ban the Legos.
OK kids, now you know what Socialism is.
It reads like a parody. I’m afraid that it isn’t.
Res Ipsa Loquitor.