Evil Lego's?

[Zeth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnZy5TIGyjo

.... I think these teachers have taken it too far... A little creativity never hurt anyone...


What do you guys (and gals) think?

[Rikachu]

That is absolutely ridiculous. :|

[DrowningFishy]

OMFG if I did not just watch that I would not have believed it. How STUPID can people be.

[Vanito]

This can only happen in the USA.

[Safyre420]

ROFLMAO yeah that's a bit far, I can sorta see the reasoning behind it but there are better ways to teach it then banning legos, if the legos were disrupting learning and what not then yeah go ahead ban it but from the looks of it the kids were essentially being kids, to counteract the kids claiming ownership, like if they were showing off what they built on like a parent teacher night, just tell the parents that all the students created the structures.

[hszmv]

I just had an idea for the next Lego set: Lego Cold War. We will drop the first atomic Lego on Japan. Then spies will steal our atomic Lego secretes and build their own red atomic Lego. Then comes the Hydrogen Lego and the ICBL (Inter-Continental Ballistic Lego). Soon, they will launch the Sput-brick into orbit, but we will beat them to Lego Moon while mired in a war in Lego Jungle Land. Then Ronald Legan will ask Gobrickhiv to tear down his Berlin wall.

[CuddlesdaTeddlyBear]

Kids are selfish like that, that's why it's important to teach them how to share, which is what the teachers should have been doing instead of coming up with half-assed explanations as to why they were acting on their inherently selfish nature. My god, why don't people let kids be kids anymore? As much as the little rugrats annoy me at times getting scrapes, cuts and bruises is all part of growing up. It builds character.

[SuicidiaParasidia]

............ [ moment of silence for a hearty mental cry of WTF ]

my brothers and i used to play with legos all the time as kids. we learned sharing just fine...we never fought over them or claimed ownership. and if one of us had a piece the other one needed, either that person would build something else that didnt need that piece [ FLEXIBILITY ], the other would teach them how to make it without needing to use the piece [ HELPFULNESS ], or would give it up and build something else, themselves [ GENEROSITY ].

and as my favorite teacher always used to say:
a change imposed is a change opposed.

the kids wont learn it if they dont agree with it. thats just how anyone is.

[davious]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O61Do03ZCjw

I think the teachers at that school must have gotten the idea that LEGOs were evil from this...

[Doddibot]

Wait, why should this happen in the USA? Those teachers sound like Marxists, and I would have thought the USA has a very anti-communist sentiment?

[davious]

I wonder if those teachers would let me take their car and sell it...if private possessions are evil, so are all of THEIR private possessions...

[Doddibot]

I wonder if those teachers would let me take their car and sell it...if private possessions are evil, so are all of THEIR private possessions...
And your possessions would be evil too, so no, they wouldn't be consistent if they let you sell their car. But they should let you use it.

[Zeth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O61Do03ZCjw

I think the teachers at that school must have gotten the idea that LEGOs were evil from this...
LOL, that was really funny. :D

[1ove]

That's going over board don't you think in sarcasm, teachers have to put up with a lot. I bet you have not been in a classroom full of kids and had to look after them eh.

I also think so many of them are under paid. I have some friends who worked in teaching and the amount of work they do outside of school is quite a bit on their low salary.

However, they wanted to teach voluntarily (and many I had ended up hating it). Young kids don't go to school voluntarily.

[Zeth]

Try volunteering at your local church and I would like to see how you make out in a class full of kids. I bet you couldn't even handle them let alone teach them something. :rolleyes:


I have volunteered for the past two years to go to camp with my church's kids and spend numerous sundays helping the children's pastor, it's not that bad, or maybe our kids are just really good.... :) :p

[davious]

When those teachers are telling their students about the evils of private possessions, and try to use some as innocuous as legos to do it, no, I don't think I am being too harsh. I was merely expressing my doubts as to the convictions of those teachers, whether they were practicing what they were teaching or not.

[TRIriana]

Well I applaud you, your probably one few males out there that actually has contributed to something worth while. My sister also taught in Sunday school and I once volunteered to help out at one church I used to go to long ago. Boy, did I get a handful and I had to deal with one little sassy girl. (It may have had something to do with their culture I think because I haven't met too many sassy kids like that in most main stream churches.) :rolleyes:

I'd like to point out one quick thing: people will be less likely to take into account your views when you start posting sexist comments that have no basis in fact.

[Vanito]

Well I applaud you, your probably one few males out there that actually has contributed to something worth while. My sister also taught in Sunday school and I once volunteered to help out at one church I used to go to long ago. Boy, did I get a handful and I had to deal with one little sassy girl. (It may have had something to do with their culture I think because I haven't met too many sassy kids like that in most main stream churches.) :rolleyes:
"Misandrisy! Discrimination!"

Don't take comments like these too serious, CT means well to people. I do volunteer work as well, she knows.

[Vanito]

That's cool what you are doing Vanito and I think with the church that's the context of what I had meant and sure of course there guys like yourselves that will volunteer for worth while causes.

Volunteer work is great and it can also be demanding some times. It could even lead to a job as well too depending on what their requirements are? In some cases I have heard that happening.

I think cause I have seen it where I come from as being very rare. Men spending time with the kiddies in church. Now of course with children's ministries they will have in some cases I have seen men and women partnered up.

I wonder if there are few men working with kids are rare because of so many scandals out there in the church? I don't it could be or it's just not something they are called to do.

Ah people will always misinterpret what you post especially when it's directed at some one else. I was not raised with an sexist attitude, my parents were both an example of that for me.

Often times my dad worn the apron and my mom worn the pants. After my dad retired, and my mom was still working he said your mothers the boss because she brought home the money.

The volunteer group where I help is 2/3 women. Both people who volunteer and people who attentend.