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The UK Education Act 1996 says:

'The local education authority, governing body and head teacher shall forbid...'
'...the promotion of partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the school.'

The Education Act also says...

'The local education authority, governing body and head teacher
shall take such steps..to secure that where political issues are brought to the attention of pupils...'
'...they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views'

SO WHY ARE THE LAB/LIB/CONS PARTIES AND SUCCESSIVE UK GOVERNMENTS ALLOWING AND SUPPORTING THE EU PROMOTION OF EU POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IN ENGLISH SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM?

This a case of intimidation, bullying, coercion, indoctrination, black propaganda and lies. It is Brainwashing and therefore another form of state and EU backed child abuse.


Quote from the video
“Because everybody has now picked up the idea that we will never succeed in convincing people about the value of being a member of the European Union if we do not start early enough with the young people, before they form prejudices and are misinformed by other sources.”



Paul Nuttall MEP, the UKIP Deputy leader and Education spokesman has denounced the way in which the EU is pushing taxpayer-funded propaganda into British schools.

He has demanded that Michael Gove and the Department for Education Families and Schools suspend the activities of the European Publications Office until a full investigation is carried out into their activities in the UK.

"It seems on the face of it that the European Commission is deliberately acting against the provisions of the Education Act," said Mr Nuttall.

"The act clearly forbids partisan political influence in schools. Yet the Commission state quite clearly that the purpose of their schools program is to convince young people that the EU is a good thing."

"There is hardly a more contentious issue in British politics today than the relationship between the UK and the EU, and here they are using our money to propagandise our children. It is outrageous and must stop", he said.

EU school programs in the UK include lesson plans delivered free of charge to hard-pressed teachers. There is also the infamous 'Spring Day in Europe' project which has been running since 2008 and includes the following in its aims:

Debates and pedagogical games should focus on the history, the current developments of the EU, its policies and its future such as:

- European integration, citizenship, previous achievements and the concrete benefits brought to citizens in their daily lives by the Union

The sums involved are not small, with the estimated maximum value of the contract is €500,000 per year, which will be €2.500,000 over five years.

"Millions of pounds of taxpayers money has been spent on the overall scheme, and millions more will be spent to influence vulnerable young minds, said Nuttall.

"It must stop. It is an exercise in cynical brainwashing of children."
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EU BRAINWASH OUR CHILDREN

http://www.express.c...sh-our-children

A PROPAGANDA programme from Brussels to “brainwash” British children in the classroom should be halted, critics said yesterday.

The call comes after a new video shows the EU official responsible for teaching aids for UK schools blatantly admitting the desire to get to youngsters “early enough”.

The programme is to convince them it is good to be in the EU before they “form prejudices and are misinformed by other sources”.

**** WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE ***
Ukip deputy leader and education spokesman Paul Nuttall MEP said: “It is what we always suspected but could never prove. Now we can. They [the EU] are effectively using our cash to brainwash our children. And it has to stop.’’


Mr Nuttall said he has written to Education Secretary Michael Gove and Schools Minister Nick Gibb claiming the programme appears to breach the law banning promotion of “partisan political views” in schools and requires a balanced presentation of issues.

He called for the European Commission to be made to halt its schools programme pending an inquiry and to order schools to stop using such aids.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “It is vital that such an important issue, which is essentially the deliberate political indoctrination of our children, be dealt with in as open and as transparent a way as possible.”

In Saturday’s Daily Express we highlighted concern over EU activities in British schools, including the handing out of brightly coloured EU-branded pencil cases. The programmes are funded by the EU Commission, whose revenue comes from EU taxpayers.

Schools are required by the National Curriculum – currently under review – to encourage talks of European aspects in lessons, including “citizenship” and geography classes in primary schools.

The latest revelation appears to show a purpose beyond provision of facts and will add to the Daily Express crusade to get Britain out of the EU. On the Commission London HQ website, visitors can click “to enjoy our little movie” about its free publication service.

Filmed at an Education Show in Birmingham – a trade fair for teachers – it interviews Judith Schilling, who is manning the Commission stand wearing a blue shirt bearing the EU’s star. She says: “We are here to offer to the teachers the resources produced by the European Commission’s office in London but also the ones we are being given by the directorates general in Brussels and Luxembourg.

“Because everybody has now picked up the idea that we will never succeed in convincing people about the value of being a member of the European Union if we do not start early enough with the young people, before they form prejudices and are misinformed by other sources.”

Literature free for teachers includes the “Passport to the EU”, containing “fun” information about states, and a “mini language guide” with samples of the EU’s 23 official languages, which she said was useful for primary schools.

For “slightly older” readers is “The EU: What’s in it for me?” explaining “how we benefit from membership of the EU in our daily life, everything between lower roaming charges and cleaner bathing water.”

The Daily Express has established that the “Passport to the EU” and “The EU: What’s in it for me?” booklets are still available in British schools.

Mark English, a spokesman for the EU Commission in the UK, said: “The Commission distributes information to teachers and schools only when invited. Some material refers to benefits that the EU brings and gives evidence for this. Others have different views and schools are free to invite them, too.

“The Commission does not seek to mislead and invites those who systematically promote an anti-EU agenda through the media also to make their arguments based on the facts.”

Tory MEP Emma McClarkin said:“This looks like a licence to force-feed pupils a very one-sided, starry-eyed version of what the EU is and does for its people. We fear it will be a carte blanche to push the federalist agenda that is so close to the hearts of the Eurocrats.”