Kindergarten boys in a Washington classroom were banned from playing with LEGOs, because their teacher found them gender biased. The Bainbridge Island teacher found it troubling the girls in her class were not interested in the toys, so barred the boys from them.
Legos are one of the few toys that NEVER had a perceived gender appropriate-ness.
I had legos.
My kids had legos.
No one ever said, those are boy toys.
This gender blurring is ridiculous.
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Kindergarten boys in a Washington classroom were banned from playing with LEGOs, because their teacher found them gender biased. The Bainbridge Island teacher found it troubling the girls in her class were not interested in the toys, so barred the boys from them.
She did not ban Lego's, she just won't let the boys play with them.
From another article:
“I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head,” Keller told the Bainbridge Island Review. “I tell them, ‘You’ll have a turn’ because I don’t want them to feel bad.”
Keller says she started doing this because boys were flocking to the colorful blocks during their “free choice” playtime, while girls tended to play with dolls or crayons. Keller hopes by blocking use of the toys for boys that female students may be encouraged to play with them.
Kindergarten boys in a Washington classroom were banned from playing with LEGOs, because their teacher found them gender biased. The Bainbridge Island teacher found it troubling the girls in her class were not interested in the toys, so barred the boys from them.
She did not ban Lego's, she just won't let the boys play with them.
From another article:
“I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head,” Keller told the Bainbridge Island Review. “I tell them, ‘You’ll have a turn’ because I don’t want them to feel bad.”
Keller says she started doing this because boys were flocking to the colorful blocks during their “free choice” playtime, while girls tended to play with dolls or crayons. Keller hopes by blocking use of the toys for boys that female students may be encouraged to play with them.
Why isn't this free time taking place, I don't know, outside?
If the girls are flocking to the dolls and crayons, why isn't she barring those?
I think the problem is the teachers bias.
She's a boy hater.
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Legos, Lincoln logs, blocks of any kind, coloring books, board games.
So many of the toys we grew up with never had a "gender".
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DD11 just wrote a paper on how Legos became a gender battleground.
Interesting.
What did she say?
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Well, for Lego - it was pretty much a catch-22. Which came first, Lego stereotyping or people preferring gender based sets? Because Lego USED TO BE gender neutral but at the same time had very limited girl characters, Then sales went down and to get more sales, they started doing licensed sets, which outsell all others - Star Wars, Ninjago, etc. Girls stopped playing with them because they were more "boy" based. So, then they came out with Lego friends, which is really popular, but the problem there is that it focuses on "girl" stuff - shopping, beauty parlors, cafes, animals. So, is Lego to blame for the gender stereotypes, or simply responding to them to up sales?
I can post her paper later.
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