No I'm not setting you up for a punch line. And no, this isn't some new teacher sex scandal.
Apparently legos reinforce notions eight year olds have about ownership and private property.
You know th' story by now.
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.
Thank Stalin for Progressive Education... look at what those eight year olds were working on before their teacher's came in and forced central planning on them...
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