GETTY/SOLENT A school has banned pupils from voting for UKIP in a mock General Election

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Teachers at Wildern School told students they were not allowed to cast votes for UKIP in a school-wide mock General Election, held before the real vote in May last year, because the party is ‘RACIST’, according to one furious parent. The shocking revelations come just days after Express.co.uk revealed how the same school reported a 15-year-old boy to the police for political extremism because he visited the UKIP website in class whilst researching his homework. Joe Taylor was hauled into an interrogation room and grilled by detectives after politically correct teachers said he could be in danger of being groomed by extreme right-wing activists.

Critics tonight said both incidents raise serious questions about the levels of political brainwashing going on in Britain’s schools and called on David Cameron to launch an urgent inquiry into the matter. In a statement, the school said teachers only had a limited time in which to hold the mock General Election, and so the debate had only encompassed the three biggest political parties at the time. But one enraged father, whose child took part in the debate, said youngsters had been told by teachers they could not cast votes for UKIP because the party was considered racist.

SOLENT The incident is the second time Wildern School has been embroiled in a UKIP-related controversy

GETTY UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall said the revelations are deeply worrying

He told Express.co.uk he was “extremely disappointed by the unjustified position of the school management”. He said: “The school held a mock General Election last May for pupils. In this mock election I was shocked to hear that pupils were not allowed to vote for UKIP as it was deemed a racist party. “There is clearly a political agenda within the school, whereas I don't believe children should be given biased information. They should have the opportunity to form their own minds up with regards to political feelings. “The school should be politically neutral as far as I am concerned.”

IG Mick Taylor was furious that his son was hauled before the police for going on the UKIP website

GETTY Express.co.uk revealed last week how teachers called the police on a pupil who visited the UKIP site

The father, who asked not to be named because his child is still at the school, said he did not raise the issue with teachers at the time because he feared a politically motivated backlash. He added that he had kept quiet until now because he “did not want my child's education to be affected in a negative way by the staff”. The accusations come after Express.co.uk revealed how fellow pupil Joe was grilled by police over his access to the UKIP website. During an interrogation at the school an officer from a unit usually tasked with stopping students being groomed by Islamic State (ISIS) extremists asked the youngster why he was an “activist” for the party and said it was “not right” that he had clicked on its web page. Joe’s enraged father Mick told this website he was astounded that teachers had referred his son to the police, adding that the incident raised serious questions about how pupils are being monitored in school.

The school should be politically neutral as far as I am concerned Concerned father

Reacting to the fresh revelations tonight UKIP’s deputy leader, Paul Nuttall, called for a review into how schools teach politics to avoid any future instances of left-wing bias. He said: “This shocking incident raises serious questions about the level of political brainwashing going on in Britain's schools. "Teachers are the custodians of young people's minds and occupy a position of huge responsibility within society. It is utterly unacceptable that some are abusing that position to force a left-wing agenda on impressionable pupils. "This school clearly has no idea about current affairs. It is not the first time they have been caught out actively pushing an anti-UKIP agenda, and you have to question how many other schools may be doing the same thing up and down the country. "I urgently call on the Government and the Secretary of State for Education to investigate this matter and make sure proper guidelines are put in place to ensure schools and their teachers remain politically impartial."

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UKIP's candidate for Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Roy Swales, added: "Any connection with anti-UKIP parties which have influenced school education policy should be thoroughly investigated." In response a spokesman for the Department for Education said: “The law makes clear that head teachers must forbid the promotion of particular political views above others in the teaching of any subject in the school. Teachers should be opening the minds of their pupils through education and this is particularly true when it comes to teaching pupils about politics.” In an email Express.co.uk asked Wildern headteacher Marie-Louise Litton whether the school had a policy, official or otherwise, which designated UKIP racist and whether teachers were asked to actively discourage pupils from researching, volunteering for or even discussing the party.

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