Seattle Has At Least One Weird 'After School' Program

[Kathianne]

Sounds like indoctrination to me. Collectivism?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQwMGVjNTU5YTQ5ZWU3MDE1NjBjNjkwZTQ0MmJhNWE=


Banning Legos
And building a world where “all structures will be standard sizes.”

By John J. Miller

Perhaps you’ve heard about the schools that have banned tag. Or dodgeball. Or stories about pigs.

If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle has banned Legos.

A pair of teachers at the center, which provides afterschool activities for elementary-school kids, recently described their policy in a Rethinking Schools cover story called “Why We Banned Legos.” (See the magazine’s cover here.)

It has something to do with “social justice learning.”

My vision of social justice for children of elementary-school age is as follows: If you’re tagged, you’re it; if the ball hits you, you’re out; and pig stories are fun, especially when told over microwaveable hot dogs.

But I try to keep an open mind, so I read the article on why Hilltop banned Legos.

As most aficionados know, Legos are made by a Danish company. The company name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means play well. “Lego became a national treasure and one of the strongest brands in the toy industry,” wrote The Economist last year. “Its colorful bricks are sold in over 130 countries: everyone on earth has, on average, 52 of them.”

In their Rethinking Schools article, teachers Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin describe how the kids at Hilltop built “a massive series of Lego structures we named Legotown.” I sensed that something was rotten in the state of Legotown when I read this description of it: “a collection of homes, shops, public facilities, and community meeting places.”
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[shattered]

Sounds like indoctrination to me. Collectivism?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQwMGVjNTU5YTQ5ZWU3MDE1NjBjNjkwZTQ0MmJhNWE=

Jeezus.. Yes, let's ban something that promotes creativity, and thinking, and planning. Wouldn't want children to have anything to do with that.

[Kathianne]

Jeezus.. Yes, let's ban something that promotes creativity, and thinking, and planning. Wouldn't want children to have anything to do with that.

The writer was on a news program this am. Sounded so weird, I had to look it up. As you say, creativity and planning. Those surely are not what those interested in 'collectivism' would want, hidden in the cloak of 'social justice.'

These certainly are 'weird times.'

[Gaffer]

communist, liberal or progressive its all the same thing, socialism. Government control of everything. It's the goal and it starts with the schools. Control the schools and you control the thought processes of all future generations.

[Kathianne]

communist, liberal or progressive its all the same thing, socialism. Government control of everything. It's the goal and it starts with the schools. Control the schools and you control the thought processes of all future generations.

Yep, sounds to me that 'indoctrination' was going on.

[Abbey Marie]

Sheesh. The collective? Resistance is futile!

[5stringJeff]

Idiots.

[Kathianne]

Idiots.

Sums it up nicely! ;)

[Abbey Marie]

Idiots.

Idiots with the power to influence very young and impressionable minds, unfortunately.

[Gaffer]

Idiots with the power to influence very young and impressionable minds, unfortunately.

The liberal version of the hitler youth program.

[Hagbard Celine]

Sounds like indoctrination to me. Collectivism?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQwMGVjNTU5YTQ5ZWU3MDE1NjBjNjkwZTQ0MmJhNWE=

I don't get it. Why did they ban Legos? Were kids choking on the pieces or something?

[Kathianne]

I don't get it. Why did they ban Legos? Were kids choking on the pieces or something?

Nope it seems they were each trying to build the 'best' thing. Too competitive. The 'teachers' wanted more kumbuya.

[Abbey Marie]

The liberal version of the hitler youth program.

Or Mao's re-education programs. Soon story time will switch from Fun with Dick and Jane, which is clearly a dangerously capitalist tale of the bourgeoisie, to the Little Red Book.

[Hagbard Celine]

Nope it seems they were each trying to build the 'best' thing. Too competitive. The 'teachers' wanted more kumbuya.

That seems counter-intuitive to me. Weird. Are these people Scientologists or something?

[Kathianne]

That seems counter-intuitive to me. Weird. Are these people Scientologists or something?

Misguided dogooders, aka communists? Chalk it up to university education.

[Hagbard Celine]

Misguided dogooders, aka communists? Chalk it up to university education.

I'm interested to know on what planet does "misguided do-gooders" translate into "communists" Kathianne? Planet Reagan?

[Kathianne]

I'm interested to know in what universe does "misguided do-gooders" translate into "communists" Kathianne?

In the article, hagbard. Read it.

[Gaffer]

In the article, hagbard. Read it.

He only reads liberal mantra.

[Hagbard Celine]

In the article, hagbard. Read it.

I'd rather glean relevant information from a paraphrase. All I got out of the one you supplied was that someone had taken away the kids' legos. I could also tell that the article is from an opinion piece. Taking into consideration the source: you, I know with 98 percent certainty that it's a conservative opinion piece. So taking these facts into account 1. that it's an opinion piece and 2. that it's conservatively biased, would you read it if you were me? I read the blurb you supplied at the top, so if you would like your readers to be informed by what you post, consider maybe putting relevant information in your blurbs from now on rather than fluff. :dunno:

[Hagbard Celine]

He only reads liberal mantra.

Why do you have a chimp as your avatar...oh wait. *rimshot*

[Kathianne]

I'd rather gleam relevant information from a paraphrase. All I got out of the one you supplied was that someone had taken away the kids' legos. I could also tell that the article is from an opinion piece. Taking into consideration the source: you, I know with 98 percent certainty that it's a conservative opinion piece. So taking these facts into account 1. that it's an opinion piece and 2. that it's conservatively biased, would you read it if you were me? I read the blurb you supplied at the top, so if you would like your readers to be informed by what you post, consider maybe putting relevant information in your blurbs from now on rather than fluff. :dunno:

I think you meant 'glean' rather than 'gleam', but whatever. What the after school program did, does, seems to be the topic, but divert as you like.

[Gaffer]

I'd rather gleam relevant information from a paraphrase. All I got out of the one you supplied was that someone had taken away the kids' legos. I could also tell that the article is from an opinion piece. Taking into consideration the source: you, I know with 98 percent certainty that it's a conservative opinion piece. So taking these facts into account 1. that it's an opinion piece and 2. that it's conservatively biased, would you read it if you were me? I read the blurb you supplied at the top, so if you would like your readers to be informed by what you post, consider maybe putting relevant information in your blurbs from now on rather than fluff. :dunno:

The proof is stated here.

[Hagbard Celine]

The proof is stated here.

Proof of what? Proof as in pictures of you and the girl? Proof as in Jack Daniels is 80 proof? What are you going on about Gunny?

[Hagbard Celine]

I think you meant 'glean' rather than 'gleam', but whatever. What the after school program did, does, seems to be the topic, but divert as you like.

Right, but you left out the "why" in your blurb, which is the only thing most everybody reads anyway. But whatever.

[Gaffer]

Proof of what? Proof as in pictures of you and the girl? Proof as in Jack Daniels is 80 proof? What are you going on about Gunny?

The proof that all you read are liberal mantra's. and make judgements on everything else based on scanning or watching five minutes of an hour long video.

[Nienna]

I LOVE rural Ohio. While the kids' education must be supplemented in some ways, here's a plus: our after-school tutoring program for the Ohio Achievement Test doesn't run on Wednesdays because too many kids have church that evening. :D