<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Seattle: Building the Worker&#8217;s&nbsp;Paradise&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; <a href="http://news.lugnet.com/mediawatch/?n=2281">one kid at a time</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown &#8220;their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.&#8221; These assumptions &#8220;mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society &#8212; a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.&#8221;</p>
<p>They claimed as their role shaping the children&#8217;s &#8220;social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity &#8230; from a perspective of social justice.&#8221;</p>
<p>So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers&#8217; anathema to private property ownership. &#8220;If I buy it, I own it,&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;All structures are public structures&#8221; and &#8220;All structures will be standard sizes.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p> You can be sure they think they&#8217;re being clever, intelligent and moral by talking that way. Talk about an inversion of values.</p>
<p>Any parent who, after learning of this, lets their kid stay in that school has abrogated his parenthood and committed malfeasance if not child abuse.</p>
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