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Teacher Refuses to Allow Boys to Play with Legos because of "Gender Equality"

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Kindergarten teacher bans popular toy among male students only

In Karen Keller's kindergarten classroom, boys aren't allowed to play with Legos. And not because of the unique pain that comes with stepping on one of the colorful bricks.

Keller told the Bainbridge Island Review that she started doing this because boys were flocking to the colorful blocks during their "free choice" playtime, while girls tended to play with dolls or crayons.

The Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary teacher hopes by blocking use of the toys for boys that female students may be encouraged to play with them.

She even admitted to telling an occasional lie to appease her unhappy lego-loving male students.

"I always tell the boys, 'You're going to have a turn' and I'm like, 'Yeah, when hell freezes over' in my head."

KAREN KELLER, KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
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Keller says that Lego play helps with development acceleration and math skills, while dolls offer little challenge or opportunity for growth.

She requested funds from the school to purchase Lego Education Community Starter Kits, but did not tell school officials that access to the toys would be denied for male students.

Despite online criticism, Keller firmly stands behind her idea, calling the practice "fair" because she's giving different students the tools they need to succeed.

"I just feel like we are still so far behind in promoting gender equity."

KAREN KELLER
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Ah, yes... The "joys" of our wonderfully politically correct and Left Wing dominated public educational system. :roll:
 
mak2 said:
Is this another silly outrage thingy?
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We've got a rather clear example of a psychotic ultra-feminist loon deliberately discriminating against, and even attempting to disadvantage, her male students in the interests of creating "equality" for her female students. What's more, she seems to be getting away with it.

You tell me.
 
1. Find some random story of some asshole teacher doing some asshole thing.
2. DURRR PC LEFT WING ROBBLE ROBBLE
3. ???
4. Profit

Not everything is "left wing" or "right wing." Some things are just stupid. This woman has no business being a teacher.
 
Gathomas88 said:
Kindergarten teacher bans popular toy among male students only
Ah, yes... The "joys" of our wonderfully politically correct and Left Wing dominated public educational system. :roll:
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You don't get to pick out the things you find ridiculous in our education system then arbitrarily label them "left wing". If our system is so "left wing" dominated, then all of the good parts of education (like being educated) are also left wing concepts. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Liberalism is about equality for all, not forcing or deforcing gender roles.
 
Kobie said:
1. Find some random story of some asshole teacher doing some asshole thing.
2. DURRR PC LEFT WING ROBBLE ROBBLE
3. ???
4. Profit
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Maybe if teachers had a bigger budget she could buy enoughfor bot boys and girls. Anyone noticed how expensive leggos are nowdays?
 
mak2 said:
I always prefered playing with the girls and look how i turned out.
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Thank you for providing this cautionary tale.
 
Kobie said:
1. Find some random story of some asshole teacher doing some asshole thing.
2. DURRR PC LEFT WING ROBBLE ROBBLE
3. ???
4. Profit

Not everything is "left wing" or "right wing." Some things are just stupid. This woman has no business being a teacher.
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RabidAlpaca said:
You don't get to pick out the things you find ridiculous in our education system then arbitrarily label them "left wing". If our system is so "left wing" dominated, then all of the good parts of education (like being educated) are also left wing concepts. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Liberalism is about equality for all, not forcing or deforcing gender roles.
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:lol:

I'm sorry, but do you guys know many Right Wing traditionalists who go around babbling on and on about "equality," and trying to enforce arbitrary "affirmative action" style standards to make their particular vision of it a reality?

Equivocate all you want, but this woman and her whackjob ideology are pretty clearly all your's. The fact that our public educational system is positively inundated with that kind of thinking is pretty much the only reason she's been tolerated thus far.
 
So she admits legos have some educational value then admits denying access to the boys while spitting out equality bs. Total hypocrite.
 
I think the lather the RWers work themselves into over these stories is at least as crazy.
 
Gathomas88 said:
:lol:

I'm sorry, but do you guys know many Right Wing traditionalists who go around babbling on and on about "equality," and trying to enforce arbitrary "affirmative action" style standards to make their particular vision of it a reality?

Equivocate all you want, but this woman and her whackjob ideology are pretty clearly all your's. The fact that our public educational system is positively inundated with that kind of thinking is pretty much the only reason she's been tolerated thus far.
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Yes, I've heard these conspiracy theories before. Usually the uneducated shaking their fist at the "damn evil liberal professors" brainwashing their children into liberal lies like evolution, climate change and equality, when really simply the process of becoming educated tends to make you more liberal.

So some idiot who (might) have been a liberal, even though the article says absolutely nothing about her political orientation, made a stupid mistake, which I imagine after this will soon be rectified, and that automatically represents all of the left? This is pretty much the equivalent of me calling all Republicans racist because of the jackass that stood up at the Trump rally and asked about deporting all muslims.
 
americanwoman said:
So she admits legos have some educational value then admits denying access to the boys while spitting out equality bs. Total hypocrite.
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Exactly. She flat out says that she believes legos give advantages in skills like math and critical thinking, and goes on to say that's exactly why she won't let boys play with them.

She should be fired, post haste. It's quite frankly insane that she hasn't been fired already.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
Yes, I've heard these conspiracy theories before.
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Yeah... No. Take your condescending (and ironically ignorant) "head in the sand" routine somewhere else. :lol:

This woman's entire world view is UNDENIABLY Left Wing in basis (basically 'Ecofarm 101'), and so is the system which has apparently tolerated it thus far. If you can't handle the reality of just how loony some of the people responsible for spreading those ideas to your children happen to be (and trust me, many of them are), that is on you.

So some idiot who (might) have been a liberal, even though the article says absolutely nothing about her political orientation, made a stupid mistake, which I imagine after this will soon be rectified, and that automatically represents all of the left? This is pretty much the equivalent of me calling all Republicans racist because of the jackass that stood up at the Trump rally and asked about deporting all muslims.
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i.e. The "No True Liberal" fallacy. :roll:
 
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RabidAlpaca said:
Yes, I've heard these conspiracy theories before. Usually the uneducated shaking their fist at the "damn evil liberal professors" brainwashing their children into liberal lies like evolution, climate change and equality, when really simply the process of becoming educated tends to make you more liberal.

So some idiot who (might) have been a liberal, even though the article says absolutely nothing about her political orientation, made a stupid mistake, which I imagine after this will soon be rectified, and that automatically represents all of the left? This is pretty much the equivalent of me calling all Republicans racist because of the jackass that stood up at the Trump rally and asked about deporting all muslims.
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If your screed had any connection to reality, then all the educated people of the past would have become liberals.

No, modern education turns people liberal because modern educators are liberals.

And Islam isn't a race.
 
What a male privileged world we live in huh?
 
Gathomas88 said:
:lol:

I'm sorry, but do you guys know many Right Wing traditionalists who go around babbling on and on about "equality," and trying to enforce arbitrary "affirmative action" style standards to make their particular vision of it a reality?

Equivocate all you want, but this woman and her whackjob ideology are pretty clearly all your's. The fact that our public educational system is positively inundated with that kind of thinking is pretty much the only reason she's been tolerated thus far.
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Well, no, her "ideology" is not all mine. I love the insatiable urge by so many to divide every action (or non-action) into one of two camps, then use it to puke out invective at anyone in the other camp.
 
mak2 said:
I always prefered playing with the girls and look how i turned out. Is this another silly outrage thingy?
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I'll bet you you still do, too, right? :2razz: :lol:
 
Kobie said:
Well, no, her "ideology" is not all mine. I love the insatiable urge by so many to divide every action (or non-action) into one of two camps, then use it to puke out invective at anyone in the other camp.
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So if I go find something stupid some conservative, say a KKK goofball, did and post it can all the not conservatives start a thered about conservatives all having said characteristic?
 
Gathomas88 said:
:lol:

I'm sorry, but do you guys know many Right Wing traditionalists who go around babbling on and on about "equality," and trying to enforce arbitrary "affirmative action" style standards to make their particular vision of it a reality?

Equivocate all you want, but this woman and her whackjob ideology are pretty clearly all your's. The fact that our public educational system is positively inundated infested with that kind of thinking is pretty much the only reason she's been tolerated thus far.
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Let me correct this for you.
 
This might be instructive of why many boys have been doing poorly in schools over the past number of decades and many boys find little at school that excites their interests and imaginations sufficiently to increase a love of learning.

If this teacher was a parent of a boy and a girl and she indicated this was the way she treated her own children, there would be many on both sides of the political aisle who would consider her an abusive parent. Her own words are indicative of a twisted personality, one that seems to find joy in the unhappiness of others.

There was no mention in the OP that girls were being denied access to dolls and other traditional toys girls are drawn to. This seems to indicate she is only interested in denying the boys in her class the tools they want and need to become both engaged and creative. That's a teaching crime, in my view. She should be fired or at a bare minimum sent away for significant psychological evaluation and pedagogical retraining.
 
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RabidAlpaca said:
Yes, I've heard these conspiracy theories before. Usually the uneducated shaking their fist at the "damn evil liberal professors" brainwashing their children into liberal lies like evolution, climate change and equality, when really simply the process of becoming educated tends to make you more liberal.

So some idiot who (might) have been a liberal, even though the article says absolutely nothing about her political orientation, made a stupid mistake, which I imagine after this will soon be rectified, and that automatically represents all of the left? This is pretty much the equivalent of me calling all Republicans racist because of the jackass that stood up at the Trump rally and asked about deporting all muslims.
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For the sake of discussion, let's say the process of education makes one more liberal.

If that is true, one can say with absolute certainty the process of paying taxes earned via that education will make one more conservative.
 
mak2 said:
So if I go find something stupid some conservative, say a KKK goofball, did and post it can all the not conservatives start a thered about conservatives all having said characteristic?
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Hmmm... A tiny group of backwoods rednecks who are universally reviled vs a crapload of "highly respected and admired" people trusted and paid by Government to educate our children, who have the backing of a great many similarly minded people in academia.

Yeah. I can totally see how you might view the two as being equivalent. :roll:
 
Gathomas88 said:
Hmmm... A tiny group of backwoods rednecks who are universally reviled vs a crapload of "highly respected and admired" people trusted and paid by Government to educate our children, who have the backing of a great many similarly minded people in academia.

Yeah. I can totally see how you might view the two as being equivalent. :roll:
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Who has defended this teacher's action? Is there some broad movement across America to keep boysaway from leggos. Of couse its stupid, but the right wing outrage is priceless.
 
Gathomas88 said:
Yeah... No. Take your condescending (and ironically ignorant) "head in the sand" routine somewhere else. :lol:

This woman's entire world view is UNDENIABLY Left Wing in basis (basically 'Ecofarm 101'), and so is the system which has apparently tolerated it thus far. If you can't handle the reality of just how loony some of the people responsible for spreading those ideas to your children happen to be (and trust me, many of them are), that is on you.
i.e. The "No True Liberal" fallacy. :roll:
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Almost everyone like this is a liberal => Most liberals are like this
Almost every racist is a conservative => Most conservatives are racist
Almost every basketball player is black => Most black people are basketball players
Almost every terrorist is a muslim => Most muslims are terrorists

Fringe X quality being a member of Y group does not mean that it's an intrinsic property of group Y. Take your condescending and totally ignorant "head somewhere else" routine somewhere else.

ocean515 said:
For the sake of discussion, let's say the process of education makes one more liberal.

If that is true, one can say with absolute certainty the process of paying taxes earned via that education will make one more conservative.
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I could agree with that. Everything's about balance. You have tidal forces tugging a person in both directions, being more liberal or more conservative. Every time I think about how much taxes I pay in Germany, I get a little more conservative. Every time I use my universal health care, free education and numerous other benefits, I get a little more liberal.
 
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