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(...) Good grief! Somebody needs to go back and re-educate these teachers! As an educator myself, I find it ridiculous that LEGO was banned. I don't see other building toys banned here...and isn't it LEGO that has things like First LEGO League, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Well, it wasn't a statement about the Lego Group, it was a statement about how kids were using the bricks. A quick summary of the article on (URL) states: ---...--- Why We Banned Legos As they watched their elementary-age students playing with (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Dave-- Please do post if you find the article. As for the snippet you did post--"In the current issue they describe how some kids hoarded the "best" pieces, denied their classmates any access at all to the pretend town they were building, and (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Looks like Rethinking Schools added the article to their archives, and is visible now: (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Very interesting article. As I expected the original one linked to distorted it severely. I'm glad some educators are taking the effort to teach children to think about concepts of ownership too. In my opinion the amount of implicitly accepted (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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