Would You Send Your Kid to a Tea Party Summer Camp?
“The camp will use hands-on activities in shedding the attitude of “political correctness” in the public school curriculum. In one planned lesson, kids will learn the dangers of inflation and the workings of the gold standard, where they’re paid in hard candies. The banker will later pay the campers in paper money, which, according to Lukens, will teach kids how paper money devalues over time, while the candy gold keeps its value.
Other lessons will focus on the glory of America, the ills of socialism, and the responsibilities of freedom.”
The gold-standard lesson would be lost on me. Paper money is more valuable to me, I don’t want to devour its sugary goodness like I do candy currency.
This actually sounds like a pretty decent lesson plan. Reblogging for future reference. (Obviously my conclusion will be more “so this shows why central banks are important” and less “down with central banks, up with doubloons for everyone”.)
(Source: bohemianarthouse)
