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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

 

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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.....

 

 

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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!

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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. :grlaf:

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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. :grlaf:

 

The lady doth protest too much.....

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