Feminist Teacher’s Lesson Plan: Discriminate against Boys

Via American Thinker

Guest Post by Selwyn Duke

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.  And inequality is equality – at least in the mind of Karen Keller, the Bainbridge Island Review, and their enablers.

Reported recently was that Keller, a kindergarten “teacher” at Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary in Bainbridge Island, Wash., was refusing to let the boys in her class play with Legos during free play time.  As the Bainbridge Island Review (BIR) wrote:

In Karen Keller’s kindergarten classroom, boys can’t play with Legos.

They can have their pick of Tinkertoys and marble tracks, but the colorful bricks are “girls only.”

“I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head,” she said. “I tell them, ‘You’ll have a turn’ because I don’t want them to feel bad.”

If you’re acquainted with the mental illness masquerading as teaching philosophy today, you can imagine this woman’s problem.  As the BIR explained, “Keller … watched with discouragement as self-segregation defined her classroom – her boy students flocked to the building blocks while her girl students played with dolls and crayons and staples, toys that offered them little challenge or opportunity to fail and develop perseverance.”  And, of course, innate sex differences evident since time immemorial cannot be allowed, so Keller’s leftist sense of equality compelled her to action.  She discriminated so the girls could use the blocks “unencumbered.”

Now, this story quickly went viral, and Keller and the school have since backtracked.  It was all a misunderstanding, you see.  As the Center for Digital Education reports, “Keller said she instituted a girls-only Lego time during the first month of the 2015-16 school year during free play ‘to get them interested’ in trial-and-error building and math. … Keller said her ‘casual, off-record aside’ [Hell comment] was meant to convey her frustration with marketing to girls in society. She apologized for any problems stemming from the [BIR] article.”

Translation: She’s upset the article caused her problems and frustrated that the “casual, off-record aside” conveyed her true feelings.This is a reasonable assumption.  The BIR piece, written by one Jessica Shelton, is completely sympathetic to Keller’s policy.  Among other things, Shelton has a subheading stating “It’s a fair practice” and closes with “While Keller sees more girls in the building area than before, it’s still not the norm, she said. So the boys will just have to wait their turn” (I guess until Hell freezes over).  Yet while the BIR wrote a follow-up article last Thursday stating, “[W]e have been discouraged by the number of unfair personal attacks made against [Keller]” – including “hate phone calls at her classroom and vicious messages on Facebook” – the editors also wrote that “we stand by what we reported.”  Hmm…I wonder if the BIR was discouraged by the hatred directed at Christian businessmen persecuted for not wanting to cater faux weddings or the Christian pizza-shop owner forced into hiding by death threats.  Or were those just the broken eggs needed for the omelet?

But perhaps we should believe Keller now.  I mean, I’m sure she lies only to people under seven.  It’s also interesting that Hell froze over in Keller’s class right about the time her story went viral.  Coincidences never end.

There’s another matter.  If Keller is really so concerned about girls being discouraged by the boys’ presence (a pity science hasn’t yet weeded those creatures out of the species), there’s a simple solution: create separate boys’ and girls’ Lego areas. But this wasn’t good enough for her; she had to stick it to the boys for being boys.

Moreover, thinking, “Yeah, when Hell freezes over” while lying to children to obscure your agenda indicates hostility.  Let’s say, for instance, a male teacher was concerned about boys’ lagging reading skills and made reading time “boys only.”  What would happen if he admitted he tells the girls they’ll have a turn but thinks to himself, “Yeah, when hell freezes over”?  Would he still be employed?

In fairness, some comments pass our lips not as we mean them.  On the other hand, philosopher C.S. Lewis once correctly pointed out that it’s when we speak and act spontaneously, without thinking, that our hearts are revealed.  And how often do conservatives get a pass on an impolitic, “casual, off-record aside”?  They get a career change.

The BIR also wrote that Keller considered her policy “a fair practice ‘because fair is getting what you need to succeed or to get better.'”  C’mon, Keller, quote it correctly: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

The BIR continued, “Fair doesn’t have to be the same, and she [Keller] says her kindergarteners get that.”  Obviously they don’t, because she felt compelled to lie to them about her discrimination.  Also, we didn’t hear how “fair doesn’t have to be the same” when the agenda involved opening the Virginia Military Institute and police and fire departments to women.  And if it is true, why trouble over, as Keller does, females being less prevalent in STEM fields and Lego areas and having poorer spatial skills?

Reality: hardly anyone, if anyone at all, really believes in equality.  Equality is simply a ruse used when convenient to advance leftism, and it remains operative only until inequality better serves that end.  Just witness the college “anti-racism” protesters who recently ejected whites from their “safe areas.”

Keller is a true product of modern miseducation.  BIR says she “faults toymakers for reinforcing” sex roles and is frustrated “with marketing to girls in society,” proving she knows as much about economics as she does about sex differences and teaching.  Businesses do market masculine toys to boys, just as they charge men more for car insurance, may admit women to nightclubs without a cover charge, and create women-only health clubs.  Is their goal “discrimination” or social engineering?  No, they’re responding to the market.  It’s not that girls and boys are different because manufacturers market to them differently; it’s that manufacturers market to them differently because they’re different.

This is illustrated well in the fine Norwegian documentary The Gender Equality Paradox.  Among other things, it points out that women are more likely to enter traditionally feminine fields in an uber-feminist, “egalitarian” nation such as Norway than in more patriarchal India.  Why?  In poorer lands, women have no choice but to pursue lucrative professions, such as computer science; in wealthy countries such as Norway, they have the luxury of following their hearts.  And their hearts lead to things girly.

As for Keller, she outed herself.  It’s logical to assume that her abusive, anti-male mentality will manifest itself in other destructive ways in the classroom.  She shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of another child – not until Hell freezes over, anyway.

 

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Mike in CT
Mike in CT

“Fair doesn’t have to be the same, and she [Keller] says her kindergartners get that.”…Well there then, Separate but Equal? Seems odd to me..Mike

Anonymous
Anonymous

Boys and girls are different, they have different natural interests and think and learn differently.

You’d think someone in academia would have figured that out by now.

Maybe the government needs to fund a study or something ………

Realestatepup
Realestatepup

I graduated from HS as a machinist from a tech school in CT. My graduating class was the first ever to have females graduate from machine shop.
Entering the tech school as a freshman, all freshman (or I guess it’s freshpeople now), were required to go through each shop for a week before deciding what they wanted to do.
I didn’t care for hairdressing and cosmetology at all. I liked electrical a lot but LOVED working with metal and machines.
Drafting was boring. Masonry, so so. Automotive was great. Electronics, the solder smell gave me chronic headaches.
The boys in my class were overall really great. Yes, they had their own locker room and the three other girls and myself had some lockers waaaay in the back of the shop pushed against the wall, and our own private bathroom out in the hall.
The school did it’s best to give us what we needed in a short time: lockers of our own away from the boys and our own private bathroom. We never felt discriminated against in anyway, We were proud to be there and work along side the other students and the ALL male teachers in the shop. Who also, by the way, never “dumbed” anything down, talked down to us, gave us lighter work. If a part or tool was heavy, we helped each other, got wheeled tables to move things. I am short (5’2″) and couldn’t reach the switch and break on the bridgeport. So I got carpentry to make me a small box about 3 inches high to just step up on the reach these. No one complained or sued.
We all had to take our turn in the tool crib just like every other student.
I got to learn on an early CNC bridgeport. The only other student allowed in there at the time, was an adult male “post grad”. He too was never discriminatory. He just did his work and I did mine.
Did we get teased? Yep. But the boys in my class were boys, not animals. They never threatened us or sexually harassed us in any way. The teachers were old school and took a hard line with that.
I graduated in the top of my class, as class president. I participated in student council.
I went on to work in my chosen field for a short time and them my life changed and I got married and had a son. I don’t regret one minute of my time in machine shop. I learned some amazing life skills along the way, and as most of the shops cooperated and shared projects, I did learn some automotive, carpentry, and electrical. These things have served me well in my real estate career, and have also taught my self reliance and problem solving.
I actually found that the boys had a harder time with “discrimination” than the girls did. Sure, some guys went into Drafting. None went into Cosmetology. Would they have if the times were different? Maybe. But no one felt they needed too force any boys into it, and neither did they feel they needed to force girls into auto, machine, carpentry, or electrical.
The whole point was to provide each student the opportunity to see WHAT THEY LIKED ON THEIR OWN and help them out if they had questions, show them how things worked, correct mistakes, and make sure they didn’t cut their damn thumb off.
Now, what does that sound like…..OH YEAH…teaching.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

I have dealt with a few reprobate total gender equality females in my life. Give them room, don’t argue with them, it’s useless. They have sowed the wind and they will reap the whirlwind!

Persnickety
Persnickety

I had a number of teachers like this in elementary, middle and high school, in one of the nicest public districts in my state. They did a lot of damage to my education – but it was somewhat balanced by some really good male teachers.

Unfortunately a couple of the evil feminist teachers did manage to derail my science goals. At 10th grade I was easily the most science focused and knowledgeable student in the whole grade, even ahead of any of the asians. But one bitch teacher kept me out of AP Chemistry, because for some dumb reason the school allowed her to arbitrarily choose or prohibit students from that class. Another old witch destroyed my math progress, along with that of more than 1/3 of my classmates in that honors math course. I did manage to get a perfect score in AP Physics (including on the more advanced of the AP exam options, for which I earned 8 college credits) but my math was derailed and so was my interest in school.

Ironically for them, their derailment of my science/engineering plans resulted in my going into a different field where I make more money and have far more political influence. And guess what evils I am not going to forget?

Dutchman
Dutchman

What a cunt.

harry p.

Govt education and “teaching” have nothing to do with learning skils or knowledge or attaining intellectual growth, its about programming people when they are most susceptible. Gotta program the male and white guilt early for it to be most effective at creating whining sniveling beta-males.
The public education system is child abuse, plain and simple.
She isnt good enough to be a cunt, she’s a heinous tw’unt.

Ghost

When my son was in 5th grade, he had a feminazi lesbian reading teacher. When the first reading assignment was Little House on the Prairie, my son whined about having to read a girl story. I lectured him a bit and told him that the Laura Ingalls Wilder story was a classic in American Childrens’ Literature and I was glad he was being “forced” to read it.

After he struggled through that one, I told him how proud I was of him for finishing it. Then, he handed me the assignment list for the rest of 5th grade.

Little House in the Big Woods
Farmer Boy
On the Banks of Plum Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
Little Town on the Prairie
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years

They made hotcakes one day as a special treat and were supposed to dress up as a character on another day. I slapped a cowboy hat on my son and said he was the local ranch hand looking for work.

The woman was obsessed with Little House and she was also obsessed with little girls. My son began to hate reading. One day, I went up to school and asked her if Joey couldn’t be assigned some different sort of stories, maybe a Hardy Boys mystery or something. She got very snitty with me and told me that it was good for boys to be exposed to the drama that Laura experienced in the Little House books. She said that he could read other books on his own, but for her class, he would read the entire Little House series. After the 4th book, I started reading the books and giving Joey short summaries to read. He got his first “C” in school and I learned that feminist lesbo teachers should be banned.

I heard she got fired a couple of years later for playing “dressup” with girls in her class and touching them inappropriately.

Gayle
Gayle

My third grade teacher broke her leg so a substitute teacher took her place for a few weeks.

After lunch every day this teacher would let a student place a chair in front of the class for her to sit in while reading aloud. As the days passed, I began plotting the great day when I would place the chair. Finally I got my chance! Imagine my shock when the class burst into laughter as I proudly put the chair in place. “Only boys get the chair for the teacher, not girls.” Perhaps the teacher defended me, but I don’t think do, as I just remember going to my seat in shame. A powerful lesson was learned that day.

P.S. Lego now makes sets for girls with pretty pink blocks and structures geared towards girly interests.

Persnickety
Persnickety

Both my kids play with LEGOs at home. Both of them love it, and they play equally with all types/colors including from the girly sets. It is interesting that with absolutely no pushing from us, my son will invariably build a spaceship, truck, or gun, and my daughter will build (90% of the time) something relating to pets or animals, with the occasional (10%?) spaceship or random thing. No pushing, no coercion, just innate gender preferences coming out.

javelin
javelin

Got my granddaughter the Lego-cinderella princess castle set. She had no interest so I assembled it for her as per the easy instructions–she then loved the set as she could play with her dolls and little ponies in the castle—lesson learned.

suzanna

This is silly. I was a teach-aid and worked in class rooms. Here is what you
do: You make a variety of toys available. You allow kids to play with what
toys there are. If there is a shortage of favorites? Get some more of those toys.
Simple.

My buddy and I were pregnant at the same times. The boys? They took
their “Joey” dolls (Mattel) and threw them against the wall. Ignored them.
Two years later, with the baby girls? We gave trucks. The girls had no interest.
When one of those girls began cooing to and rocking a tea towel in the crook
of her arm…buddy and I woke up. “Gender” experiment = big fail.
We did apologize to the children.

Ghost

@suzanna… gulp. Joey dolls against the wall! How could they?

(My son is Joey. LOL)

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

What a load of horseshit. People take themselves way too seriously.

NEA Tranny
NEA Tranny

Maggie says: … feminist lesbo teachers should be banned.

We failed little Joey, perhaps we shall do better with you at our Adult Re-Education Camp.

Montefrío
Montefrío

Yeah, well, as the grandparent of two boys, I say “fuck the girls once they become women”! I did and have no regrets. Living in South America, in a country in which we just got rid of a female prez with a mentality like that of the “teacher” described above, I still have hope that my grandsons will have Legos (now that soon they can be imported at a reasonable price, or better yet a locally manufactured version thereof) at school as well as at home. Down here, see, it’s still “where the men are men and the women are women and BOTH like it that way”!

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