TEMPLE TERRACE, Florida -- The Tea Party has been making political waves over the past couple of years and now a local group with ties to the movement is taking aim at a younger demographic.
The Tampa912 project is planning to bring the party's same message to Bay-Area children through its Tampa Liberty School summer camp.
While other kids are tending to more traditional summer activities at camps around the region,Tampa912 is offering parents a more politically conservative - option.
Tim Curtis, a co-founder of the Tampa912 Project, is offering 8-12 year-olds a weeks worth of lessons about what the group calls 'our nation's founding principals'.
Principals, which Curtis believes have been eroding.
"These are concepts that even 8 and 12 year olds can understand. Absolutely," says Curtis.
The camp will take place at a room donated by the Paideia Christian School in temple terrace during the second week of July.
The Monday through Friday camp is three hours a day, 9:00 am to 12 noon, and costs just $15.
And that brings up one of the principals they'll be discussing, financial responsibility.
One of the group's principals describes money by saying: "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with whom I want to."
Money, they'll tell the children, is to be used as they see fit to help people, "And not something to be imposed by a state local or federal government."
Curtis says it's not all that different from other specialized summer camps, when you think about it. Like music camp, or golf camp. It's just stuff kids don't always have enough time to learn in school, he says.
For some parents the subject matter may seem a bit heavy for summer camp.
Mary Nodden, a parent from Tampa says when she sends her son to camp it won't be for political doctrine.
"I want to send him to have fun," says Nodden.
Others didn't rule it out completely.
Eliza Hunter, whose daughter is 8, says the camp might not be for her, but can she can see how it might appeal to others.
"If there's someone teaching about values and economics - if they start teaching there, I think it'd be interesting," says Hunter.
If you're interested, organizers said as of early Tuesday they still had about ten slots open for the summer camp.
You can learn more by visiting their Meetup website: Tampa912 Meetup.
Eric Glasser
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