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Children Taught that Property Ownership is Evil, Yet When In Fact Without That Right There is No Freedom
Februry 28, 2007
RUSH: Tech Central Station. “Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights.” You heard right. “Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos. A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of ‘Rethinking Schools’ magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil. According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate ‘Legotown,’ but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore ‘the inequities of private ownership.’ According to the teachers, ‘Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.’ The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown ‘their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.’ These assumptions ‘mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.’” All of that in quotes.

“They claimed as their role shaping the children's ‘social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity ... from a perspective of social justice.’” Social justice in this case is just a misnomer. Folks, a lot of people talk about First Amendment and how important the right of freedom of speech is, and nobody denies this, but without the right to own property, everything else is academic. If no individuals are allowed to own property what freedom can there be? Who would thus own all the property if individuals are not? If there's no such thing as private property, why, you have no freedom. This is being taught in Seattle, not surprising to me. A bunch of Marxists who probably have no clue that's what they are. They might, granting them a little leeway here. They just believe in fairness and social justice and equitable redistribution of resources. (doing lib impression) “It's just not fair that some should have more and some should have less.”

It just reminds me of the true story of Thanksgiving. They tried all this. The pilgrims tried this. William Bradford and the boys tried this collective stuff, and it didn't work. Nobody worked for anything. Everybody had an equal share in what the whole community produced, nobody worked very hard. Bradford finally turned it over, said “Everybody is going to get their own stake and whatever they make of it is what they get.” And, bammo, prosperity like they had never encountered before was the result. We tell this story every year on the day before Thanksgiving. Now, if this is happening in Seattle, who knows wherever else it's being taught, but I'll guarantee you Seattle is not the only place that school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. In addition, private property owners probably pollute more than anybody else, other than the dreaded evil corporations.