Friday, March 2, 2007

Banning Legos and Property

A private school in Washington temporarily banned Legos after it was discovered that the children were incorporating "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." After some much-needed brainwashing, the Legos returned to an environment of equality.

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