I was going over again the reading of chapter 5 and looking at how the Boston Tea Party occured and I was thinking to myself, why this event, out of all the others in history, why were we taught this to be a big deal? I know that this is a important event in history, but the way I learned about it , I always picutred in my head thousands upon thousands of poeople throwing tea into the water and in reality it was only about 50. I am not upset at the fact that my whole educational career I was thinking that the Boston Tea Party was the way I pictured it, but I am more confused on why teachers don't just tell the whole truth, I mean, is that not why teachers are there for? Practically every time I enter our history class I am taught something different that I thought was the truth, and I cannot think of a logical reason why I was taught lies.