Boys will be boys — unless an activist social justice warrior has anything to say about it.
According to the Bainbridge Island Review, a kindergarten teacher restricted boys from playing with legos in order to institute more “gender equality.”
“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,” said kindergarten teacher Karen Keller to the Bainbridge Island Review.
Keller has been a teacher at Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary since 2008 and realized that girls often times would play with dolls and crayons, while boys would play with blocks. This seemed to happen naturally, as if science and biology dictated what appealed to boys and girls.
Societal norms, like girls playing with dolls over blocks, is what Kellar blames for the disparity between men and women in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
Being an active social justice warrior, Keller couldn’t have the girls playing with that failed to develop perseverance, she had to act. After all children that play with blocks are more likely to better develop spacial and math skills.
Keller appealed to the Bainbridge Schools Foundation to receive a grant for more blocks, only they would be for girls only.
The Washington Examiner reported that during the first month of children’s time in kindergarten, Keller would ban boys from playing with the new LEGO Education Community Starter Kits.
It’s sad that the only way Keller a way to encourage “equality” was segregate the sexes and bring boys down.
Despite concern from parents Blakely Elementary’s principal, Reese Ande said the school does not “promote access or opportunity through any forms of exclusion.” Ande also said that Keller is “a passionate teacher who cares deeply for each and every one of her students.”
