From the ‘Just When You Think You’ve Seen It All’ Department (UPDATE: Cached Version of Article Linked to, and Saved)

Just read this, and go to TCS Daily for the rest (graphic is part of linked picture below):

L’Eggo My Lego

Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.

A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of “Rethinking Schools” magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.

According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate “Legotown,” but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore “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.”

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown “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.”

At a practical level:

• Are any of these teachers pension plan participants? Those plans OWN stocks and bonds. If they were consistent, these cranky collectivists would opt out and repudiate their equity.
• Do any of these teachers OWN homes, or OWN cars? Can I come get them and give them to the “collective” society?

I’m going to stop, because I’ll type some things about these brainwashers that I’ll regret.

Memo to Return of the Conservatives: This is as good a reason as any you’ll find to fire up that “Reasons to Homeschool” counter.

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UPDATE: The headline at the top of the pic makes it pretty clear that things could be a lot worse than they are in the “oppressive, unjust” free-market, capitalist envy-of-the-world USA.

UPDATE 2: Well, well — Here’s the article in Google cache (the regular link didn’t work). It’s also saved to my host’s hard drive for fair use and discussion purposes in case the cached article does a disappearing act. I would hope that I don’t get any grief from the publisher over saving it because they think they, like, OWN the content or something.

UPDATE 3: Holy moly — Return of the Conservatives finds that one of the two teachers indoctrinators, Ms. Ann Pelo, has quite the kumbaya-obsessed resume, to the point where she made Bernard Goldberg’s list of “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.” Despite her inevitable protests about this characterization, I’m going to say that Goldberg has her ranked her at Number 51 — with a bullet, because:

Pelo once told children that the Blue Angels stunt jet fighters are normally evil bombers, and that they are now just doing fancy tricks because they have nothing to do. She then encouraged children to express their hate of the Blue Angels in drawings. Pelo’s book, That’s Not Fair!: A Teacher’s Guide to Activism with Young Children, has become popular among educators.