Legos Banned at a School

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Legos Banned at a School

arbilad · Head Chef

That they're so openly marxist is shocking. That they are marxist is not.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

What is so ironic is that the parents of these kids obviously must be capitalists to send them to the high priced school but they are allowing their kids to be educated as Marxists. There is a sickness in the world that tells people that if they are successful and make money honestly that they should somehow be ashamed of it but that it is ok if you are poor to collect money from the government that was paid from the taxes of these same folks. Without the capitalists paying these taxes there would be no funds to redistribute. I'd yank my kid out of that school so fast their heads would spin. What is wrong with a society that looks at things like that and teaches kids this way?

-- Edited by salesortonscom at 15:40, 2007-03-28

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

You are right that there is a lot of liberal guilt over the good life that they have. I wouldn't be surprised if they considered themselved "enlightened" and "progressive" for sending their kids to this school. It is a shame.

Homestar Runner · Senior Member

From their explanation:

"I'm making an airport and landing strip for my guy's house. He has his own airplane," said Oliver.

"That's not fair!" said Carl. "That takes too many cool pieces and leaves not enough for me."
Oh, for the love of ever-crappin' Pete! Yes, instead of teaching the kids to share, let's just ban the certain toy they happen to be playing with at the time they're acting selfish!

What a humungous, steaming pile of good logic that was.

(Their explanation is found here: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml )

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

I could see if the school was having a problem with the boys fighting over the pieces that they could take them away for a time and let things cool off and also reinforcing the idea of being kind, etc but the social reengineering communist stuff was just way over the top! Filthy commies!

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Well, back in my day when boys didn't share the blocks (we were a public school that was too poor for the luxury of legos), we settled it amongst ourselves in a civilized manner... it was called playing war at recess. If some kid was being too much like the gulls from Finding Nemo ("Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!), he would find himself having to be on the "bad guys" side and then all the guys on the "good guys" side would shoot him with their finger pistol or imaginary machine gun and then as soon as he had counted to ten, shoot him again, and no one would come and provide "covering fire" so he could get back up and be an effective part of the game...

Either that, or he would end up getting spit on by the other guys if he walked past the swing set while they were playing WWI dogfight aces...

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Ahhh, those were the days Cat. Now we would be put into sensitivity training and given drugs to cure us of playing games like that!