Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Note: This is a daycare/aftercare facility The students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation." The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." They claimed as their role shaping the children's "social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity ... from a perspective of social justice." So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers' anathema to private property ownership. "If I buy it, I own it," one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months. At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." The teachers quote the children: "A house is good because it is a community house." "We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes." "It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building." I bet Jim loves this school! A deep and heavy journal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Wuz da teachuh chain'd to de radiatuh in nothin' butt huh pannies? Cuz if she ain', Ah got no int'res in dis one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I love legos. Isn't it funny that the teachers had to use a top-down approach to teach this "fairness". Easy to do so when you are the one with the power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 PP, if you so ant-eye con-fom'ty, how cum you so straight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 How old are the kids in the day care? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 (edited) Weird. It's a private day care so that's even more ironic.... Maybe they're just trying to develop a little Spartan day care complex and the next step is to have little fighting pits with little tiny spears and axes and stuff. That'd be SO cute! Plagiarism is wrong too Edited February 28, 2007 by foraker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 UGGGH! theres a difference between democracy and socialism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I used to love building things with Legos with my younger brother. If I needed a piece I didn't have, I'd just snap it off of what he was building and watch him cry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Weird. Plagiarism is wrong too Watch this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I used to love building things with Legos with my younger brother. If I needed a piece I didn't have, I'd just snap it off of what he was building and watch him cry. Remember the funny lego people? I used to steal the little helmets off my brother's people and watch him suffer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Wuz da teachuh chain'd to de radiatuh in nothin' butt huh pannies? Cuz if she ain', Ah got no int'res in dis one. WOW I heard you are a successful debater and that you are devastating in face to face debates not just online. Now just where have I heard that……oh yea you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Uhmmm...I was pre-funny Lego people. They'd just invented the little round pieces when I came on the scene. Prior to that, I used to have to build square rockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Weird. It's a private day care so that's even more ironic.... Maybe they're just trying to develop a little Spartan day care complex and the next step is to have little fighting pits with little tiny spears and axes and stuff. That'd be SO cute! Plagiarism is wrong too Ah Forwaker, if only I was claiming that as my own. I am the link-o-nator after all. After all the cut and pasting I missed that one. An obvious clue was no spelling errors. I am glad you consider such teaching wrong however I also doubnt that you really thought I was making an effort to claim that as my writing. Anyone else notice a pattern - The two "liberal" sprayers on this thread both post attacks against a person..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 WOW I heard you are a successful debater and that you are devastating in face to face debates not just online. Now just where have I heard that……oh yea you! Take a number. Arch and I are discussing Legos over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I am pretty sure the lego people came out shortly after the round lego peices. Maybe there is a lego timeline somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Did you watch my youtube link? I think you'd like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 We used to make little cat prisons with Lincoln Logs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I don't get it. Why is PP and the Heartland Institue (article PP cut and paste from) getting their panties in a bunch? Isn't this a private institution offering something that some parents want? Isn't this how the free market works? Oh the humanity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Weird. It's a private day care so that's even more ironic.... Maybe they're just trying to develop a little Spartan day care complex and the next step is to have little fighting pits with little tiny spears and axes and stuff. That'd be SO cute! Plagiarism is wrong too Ah Forwaker, if only I was claiming that as my own. I am the link-o-nator after all. After all the cut and pasting I missed that one. An obvious clue was no spelling errors. I am glad you consider such teaching wrong however I also doubnt that you really thought I was making an effort to claim that as my writing. Anyone else notice a pattern - The two "liberal" sprayers on this thread both post attacks against a person..... Dear Mr. Hypersensitive. Perhaps you need an ego enema. I doubt very much the author of the piece you cut-and-pasted cares that you got 2-out-of-3 links correct. Considering the person who wrote it is also a lawyer, you might want to think about that. By providing a proper reference for your little brain fart, I perhaps covered your ass for you. You should be thanking me, you pustulant ingrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Now Jim are my panties really in a bunch? I didn't even comment other than the topic title. The thrid liberal guy and yet another personal attack ....a pattern is forming. By the way still waiting for your reply regarding the page three article in the Seattle Times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Weird. It's a private day care so that's even more ironic.... Maybe they're just trying to develop a little Spartan day care complex and the next step is to have little fighting pits with little tiny spears and axes and stuff. That'd be SO cute! Plagiarism is wrong too Ah Forwaker, if only I was claiming that as my own. I am the link-o-nator after all. After all the cut and pasting I missed that one. An obvious clue was no spelling errors. I am glad you consider such teaching wrong however I also doubnt that you really thought I was making an effort to claim that as my writing. Anyone else notice a pattern - The two "liberal" sprayers on this thread both post attacks against a person..... Dear Mr. Hypersensitive. Perhaps you need an ego enema. I doubt very much the author of the piece you cut-and-pasted cares that you got 2-out-of-3 links correct. Considering the person who wrote it is also a lawyer, you might want to think about that. By providing a proper reference for your little brain fart, I perhaps covered your ass for you. You should be thanking me, you pustulant ingrate. The lady doth protest too much..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Damn I forgot the attribution! Forwaker helpppp.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I'd like an ego enema. I think it sounds kinky, fun, and productive all at once; and I'm a multi-tasker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Peter, your panties are in a bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Are they size four? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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