> We met as a teaching staff later that day. We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities

> We met as a teaching staff later that day. We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded. Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation. Communist nonsense. And the ultimate irony is that, just as in communist regimes, an ultimate authority simply removed all the goodies from "the people" so they could all be equal in their lack of legos. Edit: > hierarchical authority Another thought about this: would these teachers have accepted a decision/outcome from the kids that was not some variation on the communal ownership model they eventually arrived at? I suspect not. Ultimately the kids were free to make decisions "democratically" as long as those decisions didn't threaten the power or ideology of the only real power in the room: the teachers.