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EUEUEUEUEU pushing propaganda on kids at education fairs

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jan 19 02:42:02 2012, in response to EUEUEUEUEU Olog, posted by RockParkMan on Sat Nov 12 14:58:17 2011.

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Revealed: How children are “brainwashed with European propaganda” handed out by EU staff at education fairs

European Commission official says they need “to start early enough with the young people before they form prejudices and are misinformed by other sources”

By Charles Walford
Last updated at 4:42 PM on 18^th January 2012

EU “propaganda” is being handed out to teachers to indoctrinate pupils at a young age, it has emerged.

A Brussels official responsible for providing classroom material to UK schools admitted a desire to teach youngsters about the “values of EU membership” from a young age, before they are “misinformed”.

The revelation that aggressively pro-European leaflets were being handed out at an education fair to “brainwash” pupils has been heavily criticized.

UKIP deputy leader and education spokesman Paul Nuttall, MEP, told the Express: “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.”

A video has emerged of Judith Schilling, the European Commission’s publication manager, handing out EU-focused leaflets at the Education Show in Birmingham. She tells an interviewer: “Everybody has now picked up on the idea that we will never succeed to convince 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.”

Nuttall said he has written to Education Secretary Michael Gove and Schools Minister Nick Gibb saying the teaching program appears to breach the law banning promotion of “partisan political views” in schools. Pupils must be given a balanced presentation of issues, he said.

Nuttall has also called for the European Commission to be made to halt its schools program 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.”

It comes after the EU was accused of trying to “brainwash” children after pupils all over the country were given pencil cases with its logo emblazoned across it.

The brightly-colored pencil cases featuring the EU’s twelve-star logo were handed out to schoolchildren following an event encouraging teachers to forge links with the Commission.

The one-day conference was staged by Staffordshire County Council and was attended by fifty teachers to raise awareness of the EU in schools, it was reported.

On the Commission London HQ website, visitors can click “to enjoy our little movie” about its free educational publications. The video shows Schilling speaking about the various teaching tools being provided by the Commission.

The free material includes the “Passport to the EU“, containing “fun” information about the 27 member states. “I’ve been told by many teachers that they love it and the children love it,” says Schilling. There is also 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”.

Both booklets are still available in British schools, the Express found.

Mark English, a spokesman for the EU Commission in the UK, told the Express: “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 license 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.”

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