Who knew that Legos, a staple in households and classrooms for generations, was actually a serious threat to our children’s well-being? Well the formerly Sleepless-in-Seattle have awakened in a truly enlightened state to the benefit of us all and the generations to follow. Recognizing the errors other childcare centers and probably hundreds of millions of parents, teachers in an after school program banned Legos from the classroom.
Why? As the teacher’s put it themselves [link] in the cover story for Rethinking Schools, “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.”
John Miller writing for the National Journal Online [link] does a fine job of demonstrating why so many of us have gotten fed up with the wacky, liberal nonsense that has permeated the education establishment, and the poisoned indoctrination that they perpetrate on our children.
Once the problematic Legos were out of the classroom, it provided the teachers with the opportunity to begin â€months of social justice exploration†. And when finally the children had been sufficiently reprogrammed the teachers believed it safe to return the Legos to the classroom because they now understood that “collectivity is a good thing.”
Please take a moment and click the link above to read Miller’s article, and if you can stomach it, also link to the lengthy explanation by the teachers themselves. Their reasoning and passion would make Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin proud —but not me.
Legos neither threatens our culture nor our classrooms; it is this anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-traditional Judeo-Christian values crowd, and especially those in position to influence young minds.
God help us!