Why I did not renew my subscription
“Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom.” My dear nerds and geeks: do you feel that playing with Legos led you to become heartless, capitalist pigs? Or was it something else? Or do you deny being piggly altogether?
I do find many problems with public educational methods these days. I teach in the Oakland public schools - a big mess. But I can’t even read this rag any more. It takes so much brain power to un-un-un-un-spin (alternatively, anti-un-re-de-construct) their flimsy arguments, that I end up more confused than when I started. And then there’s my very strong gut feeling that LEGOS are a force for good in a kid’s life. I’ll stick with that and stop paying for this kindling.
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Wow. My first tikirobot post. Wow, self, cool.
hey there! welcome aboard! :-) i have to admit i’ve never seen this publication before. it does seem rather silly that teachers would ban legos for behavior that could be brought on by any number of desirable things…green M&Ms, the cornflower blue crayon, cheetos (i’m definitely NOT gonna share those!!!)…
Clever kids can get around the ban by calling them ‘manipulatives’ instead of ‘Legos’, and only using pieces that are exactly ten times the volume of the next largest size.