these teachers are unhinged. exactly the kind of meddling full-of-themselves adults I resented as a kid. hey, maybe the reason why they are so territorial abou

these teachers are unhinged. exactly the kind of meddling full-of-themselves adults I resented as a kid. hey, maybe the reason why they are so territorial about these lego bricks is because they are forced to attend this institution and they have very little control over their environment. it's one of the few resources they can control and use to express their creativity. and those kids who are the most territorial are the ones with the most emotional investment. you're god damned right they don't want other kids using the special bricks. >We also discussed our beliefs about our role as teachers in raising political issues with young children. We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity — whether we interceded or not. We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom. lord give me strength. imagine being locked in a room for 8 hours a day with these ideologues. >Now, with Legotown dismantled and the issues of equity and power squarely in front of us, we took up the idea of power and its multiple meanings. We began by inviting the children to draw pictures of power, knowing that when children represent an idea in a range of “languages” or art media, their understandings deepen and expand. “Think about power,” said Kendra. “What do you think ‘power’ means? What does power look like? Take a few minutes to make a drawing that shows what power is.” these kids are just going to learn to parrot back whatever insipid egalitarian ideas the teachers want them to say, so they can be left alone and go back to playing with legos. it actually reads like some kind of clunky propaganda fable a libertarian might write about Why Collectivism Is Bad. but no, it's real. one of these kids will grow up to be the next Pinochet and cite this episode as the moment he was radicalized.