TEXAS -- Public schools are using a curriculum that teaches that the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism. The image above was taken from a lesson plan developed by CSCOPE. This plan is distributed widely to public school teachers to indoctrinate their students.
And no, we don’t believe the title is true, but apparently this lesson plan, taken from the Texas CSCOPE Curriculum, does.
This PDF file is an actual lesson plan from the curriculum, given to high school children: Terrorism
The lesson proceeds thusly:
Read the following to the students as a whole as if it just happened within the hour in a location near by.
News report: A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at the port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed as natives and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government.
– Class, we will divide students into groups and discuss this news report.
– Give the groups a few minutes to discuss who they think the terrorist groups is and in what location that this might be.
– Solicit from the students who they think the terrorist organization is and the location. Write the responses on the board.
– Give each group the handout: Vocabulary Exercise and have them recreate the handout on chart paper.
– Solicit from the student groups their graphic organizers.
– As a class based on the student’s definitions, create a class definition for terrorism and write it on the board.
– Give the groups a few minutes to discuss who they think the terrorist groups is and in what location that this might be.
– Solicit from the students who they think the terrorist organization is and the location. Write the responses on the board.
– Give each group the handout: Vocabulary Exercise and have them recreate the handout on chart paper.
– Solicit from the student groups their graphic organizers.
– As a class based on the student’s definitions, create a class definition for terrorism and write it on the board.
Click To Read About the Original Tea Party
While modern day tea partiers are portrayed as terrorists in some government reports, you should be appalled at the frequency with which this type of political agenda is being embedded into your childrens’ ‘education’. Whether it’s the intrusive UNESCO “IB” program that starts in kindergarten [ See http://www.mvsd-ib.org/ ] or some of the ludicrous assignments given to college students, exemplified in a recent post excerpted below from Thomas E. Woods, it pays to know what is being foisted on your kids in the name of ‘education’.
Excerpt from Woods’ blog:
I have just been assigned a paper for American History at my college in which I must:
1. Explain how checks and balances (Federal and State) provided for in the Constitution limit the government’s ability to respond to the impending climate crisis.
2. Explain how the controversy of the US Bank reveals populist distrust of government regulation of the economy. Explain how politics of the two party system affected the controversy about the U.S. Bank, and how it might affect dealing with the climate crisis. Explain how the laissez-faire attitude of the American ideology makes it difficult to respond to the climate crisis.
[2] http://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2012/11/the-boston-tea-partiers-were-terrorists-2465858.html
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) – The most historical instance of protesting against taxation without representation is now being taught in Texas schools as a terrorist act.
As recently as January of this year, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative included a lesson plan that depicted the Boston Tea Party, an event that helped ignite the American Revolution, as an act of terrorism. TheBlaze reports that in a lesson promoted on the TESCCC site as recently as January, a world history/social studies class plan depicted the Boston Tea Party as being anything but patriotic, causing many people to become upset with the lack of transparency and review for lessons.
“A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port,” wrote the teachers in charge of organizing the curriculum about the Boston Tea Party. “Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities.
“It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.”
The controversial TESCCC lesson is a product of CSCOPE, a well known non-profit whose media centers that help teach the curriculum received $25 million in funding last year, according to TheBlaze. Supporters of the program indicate that the lesson hadn’t been taught in Texas schools since August 2010, but the lesson plan remained on CSCOPE’s website until at least January of this year.
The news of the curriculum in some Texas schools comes about a month shy of the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
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