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A FAR-RIGHT group is pushing a “hateful and poisonous” home school curriculum which uses racist songs and claims all English people have white skin.
Patriotic Alternative claims 10,000 people a month are viewing its “wholesome” syllabus online during lockdown.
It claims it helps kids “learn history and culture free from the shackles and ideology of the National Curriculum”.
Parents are told to teach their children how Britain abolished slavery – glossing over its involvement in the shameful trade for 300 years and blaming “African chiefs” for selling their people.
Lessons focus on a “heroic age” when Britons were “a superior kind of people showing great feats of courage”.
The group is run by two controversial figures. One is neo-Nazi Mark Collett, 40, from Leeds – a Holocaust doubter who has tweeted claiming “white genocide” is taking place. A former BNP official, he ran the party’s youth wing.
His deputy is Laura Towler, a critic of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Patriotic Alternative’s website says home schooling during lockdown is a “blessing for nationalists” – and it explains how to apply to a local council to permanently teach kids at home.
SHOCKING
Horrified MPs, education experts and campaigners described the group’s education content as “deeply shocking”.
Former Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw told the Sunday Mirror: “If I was a head I would be warning parents about accessing anything like this. No teacher in their right mind would sink to use it.”
MP Afzal Khan, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hate Crime, said: “We have seen far-right activity and racist attacks increase in the pandemic. Groups such as Patriotic Alternative use lockdown as an opportunity to peddle their hateful ideology.
“I have been subjected to heinous racist abuse online and know how painful and damaging it can be. This ‘alternative’ curriculum is dangerous and harmful and must be removed.”
Lib Dem education spokesperson Daisy Cooper demanded an “urgent Government investigation”.
Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green slammed the bid to “poison children’s education”, saying: “Every child has a right to high-quality schooling that celebrates diversity and teaches them about inclusive British values. The Government needs to crack down on extremist ideologies and use of offensive dangerous material.”
The lessons – aimed at kids from five to 16 – feature maths, Anglo-Saxon history, Charles Dickens and nature.
But a closer look exposes the far-right ideology. One lesson, called The People of England, includes a description of the English, stating: “We all have white skin.” Another, Be Proud of Your People, says
‘Alternative’ curriculum is dangerous and harmful. It must be removed...
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equality movement Black Lives Matter aims to “destroy Western civilisation, the white nuclear family, Christianity and private property”. It says a migrant “onslaught” caused “discord, unhappiness and violence”.
The same lesson blames “Black African tribes” for capturing and selling slaves “for many centuries before White Europeans set foot in Africa”.
The class ends with questions, such as who was first to reach the highest point on Earth, the bottom of the ocean, the North and South Poles – with the answer to each cited as “white people”.
Finally, it asks: “Who can do absolutely anything you put your mind to because these are your people? You can!”
The music syllabus features eight propaganda videos including a clip called That’s What, showing black men