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Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party As Terrorist Act
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1326993:MV8yMDYzMzI2XzM0NzEyNzc3XzdFREFDMjYz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10777372:MV8yMDYzMzI2XzM0NzEyNjk5XzYyM0E4REQ=] Being able to consider moral relativism is important in life: one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. Teaching dogmatic "truths" (or that there are absolute rights and wrongs) to kids is both naive and a true disservice to the kids. [/quote] NO. There is "truth", fortunately there are many like you that are more than happy to pretend that there is not. Very useful. This particular event could only be correctly be described as a "terrorist act" if, for example, a ship in the harbour was blown up due to non-British forces specifically targeting and killing civilians (men, women, children) for political gain. Technically, it could be called "economic terrorism" at best. [/quote]
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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.
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