I consider myself a leftist, and when I read the article, I also got a very strong feeling of disgust. For whatever reason, I identified mostly with the kids in the article. A few things caught my attention:

- The teachers were concocting some way to fix the lego problem.

- Their way to fix the problem was to exercise total, unrelenting control.

- Their total power was juxtaposed with their bewilderment about the lego problem (this bewilderment was somewhat reminiscent of the "what's a potato" dinner date story from reddit). Is this the first time the lego problem has come up??

Those three things gave me the feeling that, even beyond taking away the legos, something very unfair and very annoying was about to happen. This was confirmed when I got to the part about their twisted waste-of-time game. Do they think the kids learned anything? I actually recall having to play a similar classroom game. I remember being annoyed at the teacher for wasting my time. I hope those kids are part of some longitudinal study, because their recollection of the lego fiasco would be pure gold.

Then the kids had to do drawings about power instead of playing with legos!?

How can a person with any anti-authority sensibilities react positively to this article?