This is bizarre – it sounds like something from the Soviet Union.
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.”
IT’s even worse in detail than that! This is nearly physically sickening! Of course, it IS Seattle, which has taken a niche of being a de-facto northern version of San Francisco.