Anti-property teachers use legos to teach Communism

why can't we just read George Orwell to our future comrades?
Legos are expensive and if one piece is lost,then the set of legos is also lost.

 

this is a private school. don't like it? pull your kids out.

there is something funny about a private school situated on private property arguing against private property rights, though.

 

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They are correct only on a "spiritual" level. We truly don't own anything.

 

Communism isn't evil, people are evil. IMO what makes communism worse is that it gives a small portion of people to have a lot of power and be really evil. With private property rights, there is less incentive for people to be evil, but it's still there.

 

The so called communism is evil. There is not one nation that had tried to practice true communism. Communism is against human nature and not efficient but on a small scale it might be sustainable.

 

I wonder if those teachers own cars or anything.

They should be fired immediately. This stuff is disgusting. I thought it was a joke at first but looks like it might be true.

Sharing and caring and progessive tax brackets are one thing.

All houses must be identical is something else.

Communism doesn't work because humans aren't ants. Self-ambition is an innate human trait and there is no point to squash it.

 

the small scale might have to be a single person

 

No. Communism has worked for tribes, frontier settlements, and early religious groups. Throughout history, it seems that communism has worked well for any group where the survival of the group is threatened. When there are no luxuries, people are willing to share.

 

Exactly. The more you have the more greedy people gets, we are a nice species aren't we?

 

Eh, to me, its about as disgusting as telling kids to share thier cookies and to treat every kid as an equal in every situation.

Seriously, what elementary school (public included) doesn't have communistic/communal overtures?

 

There is a BIG difference between generosity and Communism.

No I do not teach my kid to always share their cookies or "treat every kid as an equal in every situation." Yes I want her to share - within reason. Brings to mind - some bday party we went to where a boy was holding her down in the pool so she couldn't breathe. No - I do not want her to regard that kid as an equal.

Communism, by and large, does not work. The phenomenom of "shirking" is just far too great. Communal societies might work on a very small scale. First of all, an individual's contributions to the society have to have a direct and measurably impact on his or her own life. Second, shirking from work would have to be readily detected and punished accordingly. With a large population, these 2 key requirements just become unteneble. The second element, itself, may cross some boundaries pertaining to freedom.

 

Tip of the iceberg...elementary schools all have some communal properties. Standard lockers, group work wherein everyone in the group is given the same mark etc. True, this school takes it to an extreme (and has the right to anyways since its private) but to a certain extent, elementary schools have always embraced that "sharing/standard is good, equality for all children" concept. This school just takes it to a bit of an extreme and a more overtly communistic theme. Pretty much nothing too shocking to me.

But, personally, I'm not really that phobic to communism. Communism does have concepts that capatialism can learn from; I guess one easily forgets how capatialism started, by wrecking Vicotrian England into a castle and a million slums. Its always nice, for example, to remember that the abolition of child labor in England came as a direct result of the Manifesto.

 

I agree. And it totally hilarious what you just pointed out.

On a more serious note - it's a bit disturbing that you have adults teaching children what they believe to be the ideal way of the world instead of just teaching them various ways of thinking and letting the children make up their own minds.

Mind control.

 

Yeah I was thinking the same thing as I was reading it.

 

If it were a public institution on public land, though, there'd be hell to pay.

 

As there should be.

 

Homeless people in the area should follow those teachers home from school and move into their houses, since they don't believe in property rights and all buildings are public buildings.