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March 2, 2007I’d seriously consider home-schoolingIf my kids were little and just beginning in elementary school, I would seriously consider home-schooling for a variety of reasons - mostly because now that I’ve seen how quickly it all went, I want more time with them! But I’d have considered it sooner had this been what they were taught. “…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.” Betsy Newmark writes: How Orwellian is that lesson? It sounds like something out of Animal Farm but now it’s being taught to children as what is optimal rather than to be condemned. These teachers are so ignorant that they don’t realize that the rights to private property are not only the essence of our democratic system as well as the best guarantee for a thriving economy. Who would want to invest and improve anything in an economy if they didn’t have guarantees that they would be able to reap the profits from their invested time and money? Sensible Mom has more thoughts. Check out this video at Small Dead Animals. I just wrote yesterday about how the left will exploit little kids (and make them lecture us incessantly) to guilt us into acquiescence, and this one is a beaut. I wonder…perhaps we should look into how much energy a klieg light uses… Dr. Sanity has some thoughts on using kids to win your war. Betsy also links to a story about home-schoolers in Germany. Desperate Irish Housewife has a nice post on the Lego situation. http://theanchoressonline.com/2007/03/02/id-seriously-consider-home-schooling/trackback/ 19 Responses to “I’d seriously consider home-schooling” |
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.
So the teachers of a private school think private ownership is evil? They should give their school to the community and work for whatever pay they happen to get.
What a bunch of muddle headed idiots! Getting a teaching degree is definitely too easy when people who can think no more clearly and logically than this get degrees.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Aaaargh!
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Now, before you go off half cocked, the idea does appear to have some merit.
Al Gore and his energy guzzling lifestyle would be forced to move on, as would Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Babs and the rest of Hollywood. They would all be forced to give up their mansions, country house, estates and limos and private jets.
No more ‘carbon credits.’
Yeah. The more I think about that, the more I like the idea.
I think Susan Sarandon and the Dixie Chicks having to take the train or bus would be setting a good example.
Why, I’ll bet Bill and Hillary would just LOVE living in the projects! I’m sure they’d be delighted to give away the stuff they stole from the White House, too!
The projects- lots of nice, young single mothers. Bill would have no trouble finding an intern!
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Ok, now that is just scary. There are several “good lessons” that could have been taught- how the ‘community” can come together to help rebuild, how sometimes things happen that can damage what you own, how YOU can rebuild after “tragedy”. But that…that is just wrong.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Geez, if Legotown had these teachers all in a tizzy, how in the world would they deal with Gore’s McMansion outside of Nashville? If my girls were young and starting school today, I’d be homeschooling them, too!
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
[...] Martin at TCS daily has the following story (H/T The Anchoress). Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This [...]
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
That would last about one day in our rural school district. Superintendent and Principal: gone.
Teacher: tar–feathers–moron. Some assembly required.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Here’s what I don’t get. This is a private school with a pretty hefty tuition. If they believe this stuff, how can they rationalize paying that kind of tuition while their neighbors waste away in substandard educational situations?
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Dana and Dad - great job spotting the hypocrisy…wish I’d seen it.
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
[...] is the best current example in the press. The collectivity taught by the teacher in the Anchoress post convinces that this is the case. “…the students had been building an elaborate “Legotown,” [...]
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Saturday Links
Regular readers are probably aware, by now, that I do not find all of my jewel-like links on my own. Most of it is stuff I find - and I try to avoid the stuff that is on every other blog or front page MSM - but plenty of it is stuff forwarded by readers
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
The Bard says:
The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Pure insanity. Legos are an excellent teaching tool- to impart mathematical understanding of spatial reasoning, measurements, etc. They leave something to be desired, however, as a tool for socialist propaganda. I’m really not all that worried; odds are, no matter what the little darlings were parroting back to the teacher, they feel justifiably “upset” when someone knocks down the structure they’ve just built. The concept of “mine” is strong in us, even at that age. Ownership is a natural drive in the human heart.
March 3rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
#3 SCA, you forgot the lesson of “Animal Farm” as exemplified in Mao’s Rules for Communists–some pigs are more equal than others. As King Peter of Yugoslavia was reported to have said–”I had one castle, Tito has a dozen.” The Clintons and Gores will never get dirt under their nails in the new Gaia Universal Socialist Republic.
March 4th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Sunday Links
Finding Osama: Trying again? NeverYet Melted. He is too tall to hide from a daisy-cutter, or so one might think.No region will be spared. Tim Blair. I am scared. Help me!Why large businesses like big government.Gen Petraeus’ message to his troops. Lib…
March 6th, 2007 at 6:16 am
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March 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
All Legos belong to The People…
I mentioned here the business about a school using a Lego city to teach “Social Justice.” But we had no links, just what was heard on the radio. Charlene just noticed that The Anchoress has a post on the…
March 7th, 2007 at 11:29 am
My husband and I don’t have children, but if we did, I would definitely quit my job and be a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom. I cannot abide with the increasing socialist world-view and wouldn’t want any progeny of ours so indoctrinated.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
[...] believe it or not - not all parents may be depended upon to see to their kids edumacation, but the indoctrination techniques of some teachers and dubious field trips might definitely sway me toward home schooling. [...]