Tea Party Summer Camps For Kids

The Daily Telegraph reports:

Their parents revolutionised American politics with the anti-government conservative movement that humbled Barack Obama and is now bent on ousting him in next year's presidential election.

Now American children as young as eight are being raised as the Tea Party's next generation, at summer camps where they are taught about God, the constitution, and how to defend their economic liberty.

Across the US, hundreds of youngsters are paying up to $15 (£10) for a week of classes that compensate for what their parents call an anti-religious liberal bias in the public school system.

Activists in Florida, Missouri and Ohio told The Daily Telegraph how they use elaborate role-playing games to teach a Tea Party-endorsed curriculum to young pupils at the "vacation liberty schools".

"They are endowed with inalienable rights – life, liberty, and the freedom to worship – by God, not government," said Karen Jaroch, 46, an organiser in Tampa, Florida.

"If government gives it, government can take it away. But school teachers have to be politically correct and don't tell them this."

"Our side of the story – the religious mind-frame of the founders – has been stamped out," said Anne Gassel, 47, in St Louis, Missouri. "It's a subject that no teacher will discuss".