Kindergarden teacher stops boys from playing with Legos in the name of 'gender equity'
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[quote]A Bainbridge Island teacher is giving a lesson that has parents on edge. The lesson plan: Boys can't play with Legos.
The Bainbridge Island Review reports that Karen Keller, a kindergarten teacher at Blakely Elementary, is tackling the issue of gender equity by not allowing the boys in her class to play with Legos.
"I always tell the boys, ‘You're going to have a turn,'" Keller told the Review. "And I'm like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over' in my head."
"I tell them, ‘You'll have a turn' because I don't want them to feel bad," she said.
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Keller told the Review that her ban on Legos is a way to pursue gender equity. She noticed that boys in her class often gravitated toward the Legos. Girls, on the other hand, may not have felt as comfortable getting into them, and usually played with crayons or dolls. Keller hopes that by giving girls special access to the blocks, it will improve their spacial and math skills. [/quote]
[url]http://mynorthwest.com/76/2846093/No-boys-allowed-Bainbridge-Island-teacher-imposes-ban-on-popular-activity[/url]
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okay PC is now going full retard
So basically punishing them because they're not female.
How is she not being fired for this?
I wonder when sexism towards men and racism towards whites is going to stopped being dressed up as equality
I fear for this world with these people coming into the education system.
They're no better then conservative old people and the 'gender role' shit of the baby boomer age.
Probably stepped on one and took this as an opportunity to get revenge.
It would be nice if everyone on this planet could agree that it's okay to either deviate from the norm or stick with it.
why not also ban girls from drawing and playing with dolls, maybe boys are uncomfortable with the idea of playing with them because the girls are playing with them?
Why not just get more lego bricks so they can both play?
Hell, then they can play together and boys will grow up more sympathetic towards women
Serious question. When women overall do statistically better at education already, why is there a need to address it at such a lower level when it is obviously not needed when you look at the general outcome?
[QUOTE=Kaelnukem;49136460]Serious question. When women overall do statistically better at education already, why is there a need to address it at such a lower level when it is obviously not needed when you look at the general outcome?[/QUOTE]
Because the narrative that's been fed to everyone is that women are oppressed and that everyone needs to help "fight the patriarchy", so they try to find ways they can help empower women but all they're actually doing is disadvantaging men wherever they can get away with it that doesn't disadvantage women in the process.
Let's get more female police officers please, we have way too many male police officers compared to female ones. (And no, you're not allowed to lower the physical requirements, beef the fuck up ladies, you can do it, equality says so!)
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49136403]Why not just get more lego bricks so they can both play?
Hell, then they can play together and boys will grow up more sympathetic towards women[/QUOTE]
Furthermore, get more crayons and more dolls, then every day have a different type of toy out, so everyone tries something. Then have days where everything's out, and let kids gravitate towards what they like most.
Getting more Legos and dolls might cost a bunch of money, though. Mostly the Legos part.
Legos are an investment though, unless people lose/eat them they aren't consumed and can be used for long time. Dolls get damaged easily and crayons have to be replaced.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49136326]okay PC is now [b]going[/b] full retard[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry what? Was there a point when it wasn't full retard? If there was I clearly missed it.
This is just cruel and unusual you don't fuck with boys and their Legos. It's a healthy and no destructive creative outlet, and if my childhood memories are accurate one of the few activities during indoor recess where you run the lowest chance of getting in trouble for being too rowdy.
Also, going off of her logic where she states "that by giving girls special access to the blocks, it will improve their spacial and math skills". Then wouldn't it also be true that by preventing boys from having access to these blocks she is diminishing the development of their spacial and math skills.
[QUOTE=zeroXSBK;49136703]This is just cruel and unusual you don't fuck with boys and their Legos.
Also, going off of her logic where she states "that by giving girls special access to the blocks, it will improve their spacial and math skills". Then wouldn't it also be true that by preventing boys from having access to these blocks she is diminishing the development of their spacial and math skills.[/QUOTE]
Yes but they don't need that cause male privilege or some bullshit.
The reasoning behind the ban makes absolutely no sense. Just because you notice that the girls in your class are playing with crayons and dolls more often than the lego bricks, doesn't mean that its because of how often the boys use them. In all likelihood, it's probably because those girls [B]honestly[/B] like drawing and playing with dolls more than playing with legos.
:rolleyes: Yeah, ok. Since when can girls not play with Legos? Stupid.
Jesus fucking christ... now Lego?
Solution: buy more legos, have "lego time" and make all kids play with legos.
I think it's the fact she lies and tells them they'll have a turn then never gives them one that's the worst part, what kind of insane sociopath would do this and not feel terrible
Equality should [I]never[/I] be achieved through negative reinforcement.
It's "Boys can play with dolls too" not "Boys can't play with Legos because girls don't want to."
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;49136795]I think it's the fact she lies and tells them they'll have a turn then never gives them one that's the worst part, what kind of insane sociopath would do this and not feel terrible[/QUOTE]
hey, this way she can seed a distrust of authority in them at a young age, surely that won't result in any problems farther down the line
wtf there's already legos for girls
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Speaking as the older brother of 2 sisters, the girls never had a problem playing with lego and play with it sometimes but most of the time they just seem to prefer playing with their babies instead,
Me and my sister used to play legos together, so what the fuck.
[quote]Keller told the Review that her ban on Legos is a way to pursue gender equity. She noticed that boys in her class often gravitated toward the Legos. Girls, on the other hand, may not have felt as comfortable getting into them, and usually played with crayons or dolls. Keller hopes that by giving girls special access to the blocks, it will improve their spacial and math skills.[/quote]
No. By that logic one would be even less interested in getting attached because of completely arbitrary conditions that you can revoke just like that.
or, because they're kids, act like spoiled brats.
Let the fucking kids play with what they want, let them form preferences on their own, the important bit is that you constructively support these kinds of things and not try to hamfist them into things.
If I were going through middle school these days, they'd tell me I couldn't use my game boy (or I guess 3ds now) for free time.
I even had staff in high school try to confiscate my yugioh cards because they could promote gambling or some shit like that.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49136819]wtf there's already legos for girls
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Speaking as the older brother of 2 sisters, the girls never had a problem playing with lego and play with it sometimes but most of the time they just seem to prefer playing with their babies instead,[/QUOTE]
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People have told me time and time again. "That PC/RadFem insanity is only idiots pretending on Tumblr"
Lego is gender neutral to the extreme. If anything it was the only toy not marked with the "boy blue" crap.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49137117]People have told me time and time again. "That PC/RadFem insanity is only idiots pretending on Tumblr"
Lego is gender neutral to the extreme. If anything it was the only toy not marked with the "boy blue" crap.[/QUOTE]
The simple bricks and creator sets are, but there's an argument that many of their other subthemes definitely aim at boys.
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