Banning LEGOs to Stop Capitalism

LEGOs have become a symbol of "ownership" and a "capitalist society" and must be banned, according to one Seattle day care center (from Special Report):

Teachers at a Seattle day care center decided to ban LEGO building blocks — those colorful little bricks kids use to build such creations as robots, monster trucks, space ships and vast futuristic cities. The Hilltop Children's Center bills itself as a nationally recognized, non-profit, non-religious facility. So why did the teachers toss the LEGOs?

We'll let them explain: "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. The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

After months of what the teachers called "social justice exploration" — they let the LEGOs back in — but kids were only allowed to build "public structures" of standard sizes in a village dedicated to what they called "collectivity and consensus."

One of the beauties of LEGOs is the creativity it inspires in kids who can build whatever their mind envisions (and their LEGO supplies support). These nimrods in Seattle have decided that creativity is a bad thing, and instead all kids should be forced to build "public structures" where everything is the same size and style. These poor kids don't have a chance.