Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list the "positive" aspects of migration - and only the positives. No pressure on housing. No wages. No hotels. No community strain. Just the approved script.

Show Racism the Red Card, which brands itself the UK's "leading anti-racism charity," has produced lesson plans that treat migration as an unalloyed good.

Pupils are being handed headlines such as "how many more migrants can we take?" and instructed to rewrite them in a cheerier register - "migrant workers bring fresh hope to British economy" is the model answer. The materials describe the exercise as "an opportunity to explore what is positive and good about migration."

Children as young as seven are being taught that migration is a "positive" force in Britain by a charity whose funding was cancelled by a Reform council

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It's pure insidious indoctrination.

The same packs tell British kids that women and children make up 80 per cent of refugees worldwide. They do not mention that adult men account for around three-quarters of those landing on British beaches in small boats.

Pupils are told it is "false" to claim most people fleeing their countries are adult men. They are told asylum seekers survive on £6.42 a day and are banned from working. They are not told what hotels, HMO placements and the rest of the support system actually cost.

Listed "benefits" include filling vacancies, plugging skills shortages, propping up social care and closing the "pension gap" with young foreign workers. There is no matching column for crowded classrooms, GP waiting lists, suppressed wages at the bottom end, or what happens when too many people arrive too fast into towns that never voted for any of it.

Sunderland's Reform-led council has now ended a 30-year relationship with the group. Council leader Christopher Eynon said the authority would no longer back "politically charged organisations with an agenda."

Labour Party chairman Bridget Phillipson called the cut "misguided, cruel and in no way backed by the people of Sunderland." Nigel Farage took the opposite view: "As ever an innocuous sounding organisation has a hard-Left agenda."

The lesson catalogue goes well beyond migration. It covers activism, Black History Month, the meaning and purpose of demonstrations, Windrush, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, "what makes a happy home," how to support people experiencing racism, anti-Semitism, and racism in online gaming, which the plans call "extremely common."

Anti-racism is one thing. Turning seven-year-olds into activists for a live political project is quite another.

The charity's own "Migration. Making Britain Great" programme was built to "counter and alter the negative narrative surrounding migration." That is the point. Not to weigh evidence. To alter the narrative.

A Department for Education spokesman said pupils should receive "a balanced presentation of opposing views on political topics," and that schools must promote fundamental British values. "This isn't optional, it's the law." The SRTRC packs do not look like balance. They look like one side of an argument, laminated and handed out as fact.

The same project has been running through British schools for years.

More than 1,100 schools and nurseries signed up to City of Sanctuary's Schools of Sanctuary scheme. Suggested reading for children as young as five includes Kind by Alison Green, which tells pupils that people who "had to leave their homes and their countries because of danger" are "brave and amazing," then offers the line: "Sometimes people say there's no room for anyone more. But maybe you can say 'There's plenty of room! Come on in!'"

Everybody's Welcome by Patricia Hegarty is even blunter: "Everybody's welcome, no matter who they are, wherever they may come from, whether near or far."

Then-shadow education secretary Laura Trott slammed the findings, stating "Classrooms should be places of learning not promoting political ideology." She added, "Portraying the arrival of small boats as a positive thing in books for children as young as five is indoctrination, this is an illegal practice." The organisation's aim, she noted, was to turn pupils into "ethically informed change makers."

The far left Green Party went further. A leaked dossier called for a Department of Migration to push into classrooms "the need for and moral obligation of asylum and humanitarian protection." Not an argument. A moral obligation - taught to children who cannot yet vote.

The BBC opened another door. Pro-migrant charity Heard, which has taken seed support linked to George Soros's Open Society Foundations, met producers of the CBBC show Pickle Storm - a comedy about a young "alien" fleeing persecution and settling in a British town.

Heard described the work as a way to "tap into children's media and directly impact framing of migration in children's content." The corporation claimed the group "had no power to influence editing or production."

Picture books. Lesson plans. Children's television. All are amplifying the same narrative.

While seven-year-olds are told to accentuate the positive, boats in the English Channel have delivered an army.

Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. Regular Army strength sits at 83,000. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp put it plainly: "Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally. More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers."

Former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry said Labour's intake amounted to six-and-a-half divisions of fighting-age men. "That's more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day." Almost 90 per cent of those intercepted since 2018 have been male; two-thirds aged 18 to 39.

Farage, writing after another surge of landings, said: "It is utterly insane." Ordinary Britons, he added, "rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight... then what exactly is the point of having a border?"

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has herself warned that the UK's "generous" benefits and asylum support system is "drawing illegal migrants across the Channel." The Home Office says significant numbers of those in the boats are economic migrants. That is the adult conversation. The classroom version skips it.

Nobody needs a think tank paper to decode this. Charities write the worksheets. Schools deliver them. Broadcasters soften the story for the same age group. Parties draft "moral obligation" into education policy. And the raw numbers keep arriving on beaches.

The children being trained to rewrite "how many more can we take" will inherit the housing queue, the school places and the social care system those arrivals load. They are not being equipped to judge that. They are being equipped to applaud it.