By CBS News
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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