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Originally Posted by tapu
I have not seen one pre-school--now, granted I've only spent time in maybe 8-10 (and only on the coasts so yes, more progressive)--that delineates the sexes, the play, the toys in classroom set-up or on-going direction.
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The class rooms in public schools are fairly PC these days. It's what goes on in the school yard....
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Of course, there are promoting or limiting gender-directed behaviors that the caregivers have and that could be modified through outside observation and feedback. Overall, it has seemed to me that there is a natural division in interest that the kids display, along gender lines.
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Yes.... There is a division of interest along sex lines - not gender lines. (I'm a gender deconstructionist.)
You and I may be lucky that our kids fit sex-based, gender expectations. Not all parents and kids are so lucky....
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But... what exactly IS the problem when little girls choose the dolls and such and little boys choose the trains and such?
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The problem is that the options are artificially limited whether a child opts to exercise them or not.
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I live in a very progressive city (Portland, ME), and I think it's fairly well entrenched here that if "Biff" wants to wear a tutu to the museum play, he gets to. (real-life example) If "Nell" is into her trucks, no one worries a thing about it.
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You're regionally blessed.
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What is happening in progressive classrooms like that that is undesirable or unnatural that could be done better? What change being engineered is desired, exactly?
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As ScandalAndy suggested, that's a whole other thread.