“Girls Only Lego Club”: Washington State Teacher Creates Boy Free Area To Allow Only Girls To Play With Legos

ZachMich · 2015-11-18T13:47:38+00:00

How about letting the kids choose what toys they want to play with. The girls may not be playing with the legos simply because they aren't interested in them

DougDante · 2015-11-18T14:00:44+00:00

Action Opportunity: End Misandry and Gender Discrimination Against Kindergarten Boys in Violation of Title IX

Wargame4life · 2015-11-18T13:40:58+00:00

Cool im all for it, and as part of the same program we should send her to jail on the same premise.

"men don't want to go to jail but there are significantly more men in jail than women hence this woman should be forced to go to jail as an important lesson in equality"

It's the same logic, the same argument, actually its objectively more significant since jail is more "life impacting" than maths skills etc.

lets lock this bitch up ASAP please, its for equality

Upvote_To_The_Left · 2015-11-18T15:57:36+00:00

why is this women trying to fit a square block into a round slot? Why is she forcing girls to play with lego? if girls CHOSE not to, they shouldn't need to be forced to. Girls naturally gravitate to certain toys, just like boys do. It's normal!

Billee_Boyee · 2015-11-18T14:36:30+00:00

The principals email address is easily available at the Bainbridge Island Schools website, and his name is in the article. I just sent a quick email. Maybe a few more would let him know he's famous now.

waggytalk · 2015-11-18T15:59:25+00:00

It's a good idea combined with a bad one.

good idea is playing with lego's. Even at 40 i still enjoy it.

bad idea. making it "girls only".

shifty_pete · 2015-11-18T17:00:10+00:00

I have no problem with women having women-only clubs and activities, but they can't complain when men have men-only clubs and activities. It's all or nothing, you can't pick and choose.

DillipFayKick · 2015-11-18T17:31:08+00:00

She's teaching them a 'lesson'. The 'lesson': it's okay for to discriminate against boys because of our tinfoil hat patriarchy theory.

SlashSero · 2015-11-18T19:30:42+00:00

First male spaces are invaded and then males are pushed out and restricted from those spaces. This seems to be the general trend everywhere in all age brackets. If males like something but females don't then that is a problem that needs an authoritarian solution. Just keep wondering why more and more males become anti-social and disenfranchised from society.

CornyHoosier · 2015-11-18T21:22:07+00:00

Keller stated that boys always ask to play with Legos but she treats them as girls only to try to get girls to use them: “I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head. I tell them, ‘You’ll have a turn’ because I don’t want them to feel bad.”

This is disgusting. You want to know what good teaching is? Let me tell you a story form my past:

I had a 5th grade teacher named Mrs. Guile. She was a great woman and cared about the education and interests of all the children in her class.

I had always taken to technology pretty well, so when our school got a computer I was always so excited to use it. Being the awesome teacher that she was, Mrs. Guile saw I loved using the computer and wanted other students to use it. Looking back I could see that it was almost always the boys that wanted to use the computer. So what did she do to even things out? She paired me up with one of the girls in class and had me show her everything I had learned on the computer.

She didn't exclude me from using the computer to give the girls a leg up. She was a smart teacher so was able to harness my enthusiasm for technology to progress the intelligence of the others.

Destroying the imagination and enthusiasm of children because of their gender is so abhorrent that I feel this woman needs to lose her teaching license. This is a despicable teaching method.

Ovendice · 2015-11-18T16:10:30+00:00

What a stupid pile of shit excuse for a human being. Well, I guess there's nothing she can do about boys playing with Legos when they're not at school.

pxlgirl · 2015-11-18T17:24:15+00:00

Why do they keep saying "gender is a social construct" yet they propagate "girls only clubs"? SMFH

SmokesInTheNight · 2015-11-19T00:23:36+00:00

I find it humorous/disturbing how the feminists that always push and campaign and try to force women to pursue STEM... are outside of STEM. The level of hypocrisy and duplicity is astounding. Here you are Karen Keller, a KINDERGARTEN TEACHER - an occupation PREDOMINANTELY female, an occupation recognized across society as a "traditionally female" occupation, and you are trying to force OTHER girls to pursue STEM. Isn't it obvious how ungenuine you are? If you truly believed in your cause, that there need to be more women in STEM, why don't YOU go into STEM? Why don't YOU quit your job, go back to school to become an architect. Instead you sit in your cushy job as a kindergarten teacher bullying 5 and 6 year old boys because you know you're too weak to compete with adult men. These feminists are only pioneers in talk, never in action, they're always trying to force and talk other females into putting in the hard work and discipline, the actual action, to break barriers - it's never themselves.

Upvote_To_The_Left · 2015-11-18T15:49:42+00:00

I wonder if this women sleeps better at night knowing she is saving the world by not letting her boys play with legos.

meanwhile in Syria women are having acid thrown in their face.

furnatic · 2015-11-18T16:36:02+00:00

This is what happens when you let too many rich, entitled assholes live in one place too long #Bainbridge

SoundOfDrums · 2015-11-18T17:22:08+00:00

Legos huh? The company infamous for advertising that their products aren't for a specific gender, and that boys may want to play with the pink stuff, and girls may want to play with the blue stuff?

Huh.

theHangedGod · 2015-11-18T17:43:48+00:00

Separate but equal

DavidByron2 · 2015-11-18T18:52:08+00:00

It's like the famous blue eyes / brown eyes experiment except instead of lasting just a couple of days it's forever and instead of trying to show kids not to be prejudiced it's training them in hatred.

L0gic1o1 · 2015-11-18T21:59:27+00:00

Girls are forced to do something they don't like for equality, boys are vilified for wanting to play with them.
Welcome to the new frontier of feminism.

TheBrownWelsh · 2015-11-19T00:10:51+00:00

I remember when I was a daycare teacher (the only male one there), there was a young boy who was very effeminate. The teachers advised me to not let him play with the girls toys because it wasn't "right". I could never get them to admit that they thought it was going to "turn him gay", but they consistently tried to veer him away from girls toys yet let the girls play with whatever they wanted. Hell, they even let some of the other boys play with girls toys, but they were usually just using them as props and not actually playing with them.

It really pissed me off, trying to forcibly direct this child in the direction they felt was the "right" one. I did my best with him, playing with the toys with him when I thought I could get away with it. My best success was after they'd stopped him from wearing the pink tutu he loved; he wanted to put on a magic show and needed a "beautiful assistant" in true cliche fashion, but none of the other kids wanted to help him - so I threw on the tutu and became his assistant. They kind of stopped bothering me about it after that.

onyxsamurai · 2015-11-18T17:06:00+00:00

I think its great to have a girls only club for legos. But her mentality and approach are just ridiculous.

TheBauhausCure · 2015-11-18T17:13:07+00:00

LEGO is something my husband and I enjoy together. To deprive the joy and mental exercise from half of the class seems almost cruel.

Vitorfg · 2015-11-19T01:12:53+00:00

This is too much. Are teachers allowed to engage in forcefull social engineering likes this?

rodrigogirao · 2015-11-19T03:43:44+00:00

Contact the Lego Group, they won't like seeing their toys being used as part of a hate campaign.

2015-11-19T08:50:33+00:00

I think at most, you could have everyone try playing with a certain thing once. At the start of the year, play with LEGO, then at the end of the week, let the kids play with what they want. Then the next week if you have more things left to introduce, start the process again. And again let kids choose what to do at the end of the week. Going until you're done.

That way, kids get exposed to new things. But you still allow them to have the fun they want. I'd rather just let kids experiment on their own however. I never liked needing to try new things just for the sake of trying new things. I'll try new things I'm actually interested in, and that's about it. Always have been that way. I think most kids would act up if they were bored with something. Boys in particular since they have more energy.

edit; "Karen S" in the comments... is that the Kevin Strong?

iNQpsMMlzAR9 · 2015-11-19T11:40:35+00:00

and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head.

I imagine that's exactly what's going on when feminists say they're working on men's issues.

thegreyhoundness · 2015-11-19T12:31:48+00:00

What a terrible terrible person. Scary that she has access to children all day every day. I bet she treats them very well... If that was my kid in her class, I'd be pulling them out of that school immediately.

Rockbottom503 · 2015-11-19T12:56:08+00:00

Someone needs to complain about this woman and get her out of an early years setting!

SmokesInTheNight · 2015-11-18T17:25:11+00:00

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Ovendice · 2015-11-19T01:15:40+00:00

From another article about the same story: http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/11/17/teacher-restricts-lego-play-to-her-girl-students-in-the-pursuit-of-gender-equity/ "Apparently Keller did some research and determined on her own that something had to give as she believed her girl students were indeed missing out. Keller found in her research that Lego play has been widely attributed to accelerating development and helping children fine-tune spatial and math skills, two of the largest areas of cognitive disparity between men and women. Further, female STEM role models are few and far between, and part of the reason for their underrepresentation, Keller believes, are the gender stereotypes women are socialized into from an early age."

Well, good, then once she's tried this for a month, she's going to let us know what the results are, right? HAha Don't hold your breath. We all know what the results are going to be, because this crap has all been tried before over and over for decades and ironically the results have proven that gender is NOT a gender construct. It goes all the way down to the molecular and physiological levels and our DNA.

Liberals are just extremely stupid and uneducated and never learn and act like this is the 1960s. Feminism is DEAD. It's over. Decades ago. Get a LIFE, Loser. Feminism PROVED that gender is not a gender construct, men and women are nothing alike and women can't be men. Just accept the fact that girls and women are simply not as intelligent or energetic or as imaginative and move on. The world got along just fine before Feminism, in fact it did 1 million times better without Feminism.

keeb119 · 2015-11-18T18:58:26+00:00

if the boys were creating a threatening environment for the girls when they wanted to play with lego's then i could understand. but if the girls wee simply not interested then this is bullshit.

Title	“Girls Only Lego Club”: Washington State Teacher Creates Boy Free Area To Allow Only Girls To Play With Legos
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Date	November 18, 2015 1:02 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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