Friday, June 17, 2011 3:44:53 AM
Indoctrinate your children at Tea Party summer camp!
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It's a real thing!
By Alex Pareene
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 18:15 ET
The St. Petersburg Times [ http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119 (below)] (via digby [ http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-will-we-tell-children-tea-party.html ]) has the amazing story of the 912 Project's "Tampa Liberty School," a liberty-themed "weeklong seminar" for schoolchildren ages 8-12.
If there's one thing conservatives enjoy more than accusing liberals of doing the horrible things that conservatives actually do, it's imitating the horrible things they have convinced themselves that liberals do. They convince themselves that the liberal media is an anti-conservative smear machine with no regard for the truth, and that the only purpose of journalism and art is propaganda, and so they create "BigJournalism.com." They convince themselves that liberals are using public schools to indoctrinate our children into worshiping Barack Obama, and so they start a Tea Party Summer Camp, where our children will be properly indoctrinated into loving liberty.
At Tea Party camp, conservative writer Jeff Lukens will teach your children to say things like "America is good" and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable." (That is a mouthful for an 8-year-old!)
While Lukens is not familiar with public school curricula, he tells the Times, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness." There will be none of that dreaded "political correctness" at this summer camp!
I can't even write jokes about what the children will do at this camp, because the Tea Party people have predicted all of the jokes and made them real:
One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.
What will children buy at the "store" if they already have candy, though? Is that the lesson? I'm so bad with candy-economics. (CASH4CANDY WILL PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR LOOSE CANDY!)
I have some really good ideas for other Tea Party Summer Camp activities:
* The children will be rewarded for disobeying rules, because camp counselors have no authority under the 10th Amendment.
* A child who accuses other children of bullying or teasing will be ignored unless he or she can produce video evidence.
* One day the counselors will take all the children's candy and give it to a fat, lazy kid who doesn't have any candy, in order to teach them about the unfairness of wealth-redistribution.
* In order to learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, the children will not be given lunch.
See y'all at Tea Party camp!
Copyright ©2011 Salon Media Group, Inc.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp/index.html [comments at http://letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp/view/?show=all ]
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Tea party group offers summer camp
By Marlene Sokol, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
TAMPA — Here's another option now that the kids are out of school: a weeklong seminar about our nation's founding principles, courtesy of the Tampa 912 Project [ http://www.meetup.com/tampa912/ ].
The organization, which falls under the tea party umbrella, hopes to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that include "America is good," "I believe in God," and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable."
Organized by conservative writer Jeff Lukens and staffed by volunteers from the 912 Project, Tampa Liberty School will meet every morning July 11-15 in borrowed space at the Paideia Christian school [ http://www.thepaideiaschool.org/ ] in Temple Terrace.
"We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told," Lukens said.
He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing."
Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.
One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard [ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237431/gold-standard ]. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism [ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism ]. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.
While the Liberty school is the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area, Lukens said a group in Kentucky ran a similar school [ http://www.kentucky.com/2010/07/13/1346732/liberty-school-focus-is-founding.html ], and he learned from their ideas.
There is room for 40 students in the Tampa school and as of Monday, eight had signed up. The fee is $15.
"We've had classes for adults," said Karen Jaroch, who chairs the Tampa 912 Project. "Now we want to introduce a younger generation to economics and history, but in a fun way."
If the school is successful, Jaroch and Lukens will look for ways to run more sessions, either during the summer or after school resumes. In fact, Jaroch said the group might try to bring its curriculum to the public schools during Constitution Week [ http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/Education/Constitution_Week.html ] in September.
"We definitely teach the Constitution [ http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html ], especially during Constitution Week," said Linda Cobbe, a school district spokeswoman. She said the district would need to make sure the organization does not have a political agenda, and that they would need to be approved by SERVE [ http://serve.mysdhc.org/ ], a nonprofit agency that clears volunteers in the schools.
Lukens said it is too early to speak in detail about what will happen after July 15. But, he said, "we plan on coming back and coming back and coming back."
Marlene Sokol can be reached at (813) 226-3356 or sokol@sptimes.com.
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To learn more:
Go to http://tampalibertyschool.eventbrite.com or contact the event coordinator at jeff@tampa912.org.
*
© 2011 St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119 [with comments]
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AP/iStockphoto/Salon
It's a real thing!
By Alex Pareene
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 18:15 ET
The St. Petersburg Times [ http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119 (below)] (via digby [ http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-will-we-tell-children-tea-party.html ]) has the amazing story of the 912 Project's "Tampa Liberty School," a liberty-themed "weeklong seminar" for schoolchildren ages 8-12.
If there's one thing conservatives enjoy more than accusing liberals of doing the horrible things that conservatives actually do, it's imitating the horrible things they have convinced themselves that liberals do. They convince themselves that the liberal media is an anti-conservative smear machine with no regard for the truth, and that the only purpose of journalism and art is propaganda, and so they create "BigJournalism.com." They convince themselves that liberals are using public schools to indoctrinate our children into worshiping Barack Obama, and so they start a Tea Party Summer Camp, where our children will be properly indoctrinated into loving liberty.
At Tea Party camp, conservative writer Jeff Lukens will teach your children to say things like "America is good" and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable." (That is a mouthful for an 8-year-old!)
While Lukens is not familiar with public school curricula, he tells the Times, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness." There will be none of that dreaded "political correctness" at this summer camp!
I can't even write jokes about what the children will do at this camp, because the Tea Party people have predicted all of the jokes and made them real:
One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.
What will children buy at the "store" if they already have candy, though? Is that the lesson? I'm so bad with candy-economics. (CASH4CANDY WILL PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR LOOSE CANDY!)
I have some really good ideas for other Tea Party Summer Camp activities:
* The children will be rewarded for disobeying rules, because camp counselors have no authority under the 10th Amendment.
* A child who accuses other children of bullying or teasing will be ignored unless he or she can produce video evidence.
* One day the counselors will take all the children's candy and give it to a fat, lazy kid who doesn't have any candy, in order to teach them about the unfairness of wealth-redistribution.
* In order to learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, the children will not be given lunch.
See y'all at Tea Party camp!
Copyright ©2011 Salon Media Group, Inc.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp/index.html [comments at http://letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp/view/?show=all ]
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Tea party group offers summer camp
By Marlene Sokol, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
TAMPA — Here's another option now that the kids are out of school: a weeklong seminar about our nation's founding principles, courtesy of the Tampa 912 Project [ http://www.meetup.com/tampa912/ ].
The organization, which falls under the tea party umbrella, hopes to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that include "America is good," "I believe in God," and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable."
Organized by conservative writer Jeff Lukens and staffed by volunteers from the 912 Project, Tampa Liberty School will meet every morning July 11-15 in borrowed space at the Paideia Christian school [ http://www.thepaideiaschool.org/ ] in Temple Terrace.
"We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told," Lukens said.
He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing."
Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.
One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard [ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237431/gold-standard ]. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism [ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism ]. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.
While the Liberty school is the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area, Lukens said a group in Kentucky ran a similar school [ http://www.kentucky.com/2010/07/13/1346732/liberty-school-focus-is-founding.html ], and he learned from their ideas.
There is room for 40 students in the Tampa school and as of Monday, eight had signed up. The fee is $15.
"We've had classes for adults," said Karen Jaroch, who chairs the Tampa 912 Project. "Now we want to introduce a younger generation to economics and history, but in a fun way."
If the school is successful, Jaroch and Lukens will look for ways to run more sessions, either during the summer or after school resumes. In fact, Jaroch said the group might try to bring its curriculum to the public schools during Constitution Week [ http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/Education/Constitution_Week.html ] in September.
"We definitely teach the Constitution [ http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html ], especially during Constitution Week," said Linda Cobbe, a school district spokeswoman. She said the district would need to make sure the organization does not have a political agenda, and that they would need to be approved by SERVE [ http://serve.mysdhc.org/ ], a nonprofit agency that clears volunteers in the schools.
Lukens said it is too early to speak in detail about what will happen after July 15. But, he said, "we plan on coming back and coming back and coming back."
Marlene Sokol can be reached at (813) 226-3356 or sokol@sptimes.com.
*
To learn more:
Go to http://tampalibertyschool.eventbrite.com or contact the event coordinator at jeff@tampa912.org.
*
© 2011 St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119 [with comments]
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