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February 28, 2007
Communist Brainwashing at Seattle School
As communism has proven at every opportunity, without property rights, there are no rights at all — not even the right to life and limb. But that's not what some kids have been learning at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle, where Legos were banned to stress to children "the inequities of private ownership."
According to the teachers:
Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.
Somehow "full democratic participation" never seems to last very long once the government has exerted the totalitarian authority required to impose "collectivity."
Teachers were disturbed to see kids supposedly incorporating into an elaborate Legotown they built "assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys" that "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." One child was actually heard to say, "If I buy it, I own it."
Of course the way it should work is, "If I build it, the government expropriates it." To get this message across, Legos were banned while students were subjected to esoteric lectures on the evils of individuality over a period of several months, after which the kids finally got to play with Legos again. But first they had to agree to guiding principles such as "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." Children were conditioned to recite chilling lines like these:
A house is good because it is a community house.
We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.
It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.
It's particularly important to learn these lessons in Washington State, where even before the outrageous Kelo decision state officials were making a regular practice of abusing eminent domain to steal people's property and turn it over to developers able to generate more tax revenue.
On tips from NudeGayWhalesForJesus and James.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 28, 2007 4:40 PM
Comments
Wow, it just never ends. These idiots need to take a course in basic economics, then maybe they'll understand the stupidity of these teaching models. A history lesson would probably serve them well also.
Posted by: bro robin at February 28, 2007 5:39 PM
I suppose that depends on who wrote the history lesson.
Posted by: Steve at February 28, 2007 5:45 PM
Does this mean that my neighbors HDTV is really mine? I'am now a Communist, his HDTV must be expropriated to my living room for the good of the workers!
Posted by: associatecontributor1 at February 28, 2007 6:38 PM
You know, I'd like to see the parents of these students go to the teachers' homes and demand their posessions.
Posted by: Steve at February 28, 2007 6:47 PM
i recently found this father/daughter talk:
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus, college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."
Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Posted by: nanc at February 28, 2007 8:44 PM
I think the lesson most of those kids learned was that they need to buy their own legos. That, and their teachers are a bunch of jerks.
Posted by: kevin at February 28, 2007 8:53 PM
Good one nanc. Things have changed a lot from when I was in 5th grade and George Orwell's Animal Farm was the standard.
Posted by: MB at February 28, 2007 10:31 PM
ROFLMAO! Great annecdote nanc!
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at February 28, 2007 10:36 PM
I'm surprised the children's worker indoctrination compound allows Legos in other colors besides Red. An oversight that will soon be rectified, no doubt.
Preschoolers of the world unite! Throw off the chains of the capitalist oppressors and their running dog teacher lackeys!
Welcome to the Democrat party.
Posted by: verist at March 1, 2007 9:36 PM
