The Boston Tea Partiers Were Terrorists
Happy Thanksgiving!
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.
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.