I suppose it's not surprising that students aren't taught in primary school that yes, the Boston Tea Party was about Parliament's tea taxes, but it was actually about Parliament *lowering* the tax on tea, because the Americans in Boston were tea smugglers who were selling tea at lower rates than the East India Company could, and the lower taxes let the EIC compete in port cities like Boston.
@noelle i think it was taught roughly correctly in my history class, but it was AP (also this was over a decade ago so, could be wrong)
iirc though they generally diminished its importance and placed a lot more emphasis on the Stamp Act, and the increasing amount of control Britain exerted over local governance (which the taxes helped to fund)
the tea legislation was like “yeah sure this happened and it sparked some things but people weren't actually declaring independence over tea”
