[DirtyHarryY2K]

we decided to ban the Legos

On Christmas after our toddler flushed a handful and permanently plugged the toilet which we had to have the plumber replace obviously...:^)

[philetus]

When I was five, as soon as my dad left for work, my mom would
tell me to go play and lock the door so I couldn’t get back in.
Me and my friend from up the street would go play in the dairy fields, build a tumbleweed fort, set it on fire, catch crawdads in the sewer, jump on the back of the ice cream truck, throw rocks over the fence at the nudists partying around the pool in the next block, and usually get our butts blistered when our dads got home.

Garden Grove,CA was a nice place then.

[MaxMax]

/Bump for later reading

[jwh_Denver]

Cut out all the noise? Communism/socialism destroys.

[Lexinom]

Ah, another case of a discussion we should not be having.

after school program

If their mothers were at home waiting for the kids when school was out, we would not need this.

If we hadn't sent our entire manufacturing base off to China, and if companies were still headed by honest and moral people, the mothers' husbands would be earning a fair family wage such that the mother would not need to work.

And of course, if mother and father stayed married instead of playing the run-around-Sue and sleeping with whoever they crashed with in a drunken stupor the night before.

So dig a little deeper, and we'll find the root of the problem in the existence of these "centers" and the problems that instilled such a "need" in the perverted minds that created them in the first place.

Someone mentioned this is happening in Seattle? What an embarrassment. Still, what should we expect from a state whose proudest Republican is RINO Dan Evans and which elected a good Republican governor in 2004 but swore in a Democrat in 2005?

[Cacique]

btt

[redgolum]

In other words.
They banned Legos (and probably all fun toys) to make the little darlings into the New Soviet Man.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I could understand banning Legos if one kept finding “cool pieces” in his cereal, or if one regularly stepped on them in the middle of the night on a hardwood floor. But these folks are slightly beyond understanding.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They are communists, and their favorite concept is “ban”.

[aruanan]

If the women make a moral claim that what the kids used to be doing with Legos is bad and what they're doing to reshape their attitudes toward work, collectivity, etc., is good, then are they not guilty, by setting the experiment up to begin with, of having fomented (politically) immoral behavior in the children? If, though, they respond that there is no good or bad involved, simply different choices, then are they not getting way too worked up about something on the level of preferring cabbage over carrots?

I remember once a lesson plan for Sunday school about disobedience. The teacher was instructed to bring in an interesting looking box that could easily be opened and place it on the table. The teacher was then to instruct the kids NOT to open the box and then go out of the room on some pretext and later return to ask the kids if any of them were tempted to open the box after being told not to. I thought this exercise was simply evil because it was deliberately setting the kids up to do what they were told not to do. Instead, I discussed with the class what a pathetic pantload this lesson was, what it was ineptly trying to teach, and why it was bad.

[Momaw Nadon]

When Legos are outlawed, only outlaws will have Legos.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I'd love to see what these morons could create if they called it a Lego Collective, and doled out the "cool pieces" only to certain elite members of the class, and gave everyone else only those lousy 1-bump Legos to build the rest of the town, and whenever they needed a 4-bump piece or a bigger block, they had to wait for weeks in a line, and then were limited to only two larger pieces at a time, etc. That'd teach the kids the real nature of collectivism, of course.

[Tired of Taxes]

the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society

No, it conveys a corrupt and oppressive government that won't allow the other children into the free market system of building and playing with Legos. Sheesh, everyone can see that.

[SuziQ]

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. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.

Interesting. Kinda tells me that left alone, folks will gravitate toward a capitalist system, NOT a socialist one. I guess that's what alarmed the socially liberal teachers who consider capitalism "unjust and oppressive".

[HamiltonJay]

Hilltop is located in an affluent Seattle neighborhood, and, with only a few exceptions, the staff and families are white; the families are upper-middle class and socially liberal. Kendra is the lead teacher for the Big Kid program; two additional teachers, Erik and Harmony, staff the program. Ann is the mentor teacher at Hilltop, working closely with teachers to study and plan curriculum from children's play and interactions.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA... yea and how many of their affluent liberal parents are letting the homeless or less privaleged use the extra thousand or two thousand or more extra square feet of home space that their's have over the norm?

Bunch of hypocritical white guilt idiots.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Just wait ‘til these ditzes find out that Legos are made by a for-profit capitalist company that protects its valuable brand aggressively and doesn’t share its profits with anybody and everybody who decides they want a cut.

[tutstar]

read later

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Why I continue to say that liberalism is caused by inadequate and poorly functioning mental equipment.

[Old Professer]

And all the cookies lay neatly in place slumbering peacefully as Ann and Kendra lounged passionately on the soft carpet amid a sea of Legos, lost in the idyllic afterglow of shared conquest.

[EBH]

I have to admit I read this story this morning and it left me shaking my head in disbelief!

As I drove off to work this story hung with me. I got to thinking about of all things...a Commandment. You know, one of the big 10.

And wondered if it ever occurred to these teachers that what they failed to teach the other children was just as important as their warped sense of “sharing.” Although it is indeed a lesson they themselves never seemed to have learned.

Thou shalt not covet...

to feel inordinate desire for what belongs to another