Thread: Danville summer school teaches Tea Party values to kids

Danville summer school teaches Tea Party values to kids
Lessons include Bible's impact, founding fathers
5:49 PM, Aug. 7, 2011



The Courier- Journal, one of the largest newspapers in Kentucky, featured a story on conservative summer camps on the front page of their website today. The article describes camps organized by members of the 9/12 Project that seek to educate children on history, faith, hope and charity in fun and innovative ways.



DANVILLE, Ky. — Eighteen children filed into a small Danville church one evening last week to learn about the principles of American liberty — including lessons on the failures of communism, the Constitution's biblical roots and gold's superiority to government currency.



During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history, including stories about how colonists' prayers once helped turn back a threatening French fleet and the principle of equal opportunity, but not necessarily equal results.



It marked the latest of a growing number of Vacation Liberty Schools, volunteer-run programs for children mostly aged 10-15 that resemble a mix between vacation Bible school, U.S. history and tea party-style conservative ideas that supporters say aren't taught in public schools.



They're run by members of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, a group that holds to a series of nine principles, including “America is good,â€

If I didn't reside in the soon to be independent country of Texas this Kentucky town would definitely be a possibility, although I'm still leaning towards Australia.

[quote]'Very troubling'
Joseph Conn, a spokesman for Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the teachings are “clearly biased toward a particular religious and political viewpointâ€