An online “educational” resource that recently triggered controversy for a Colorado school district when parents found it was a portal to pornography has been placed on the “2017 Dirty Dozen List” by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
The resource gave students access to sites that “normalize sexual violence, such as a link to a story depicting the rape of a woman using the barrel of a gun, as well as sites that normalize risky sexual behaviors such as public, anal and group sex,” the NCOSE said.
Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the NCOSE, said in a statement that executives for the company, EBSCO, admitted the problem. She said they were trying to address it but that it would remain on her organization’s “Dirty Dozen” list “until … improvements have been implemented system-wide and verified.”
“EBSCO executives contacted NCOSE on February 21 to express their concern about the sexually explicit content accessible via their databases and share that they are actively working to develop new algorithms and better filtering systems,” she explained.
In the meantime, parents and schools need to be on alert, noted NCOSE, which has posted online a list of videos documenting the easy access to pornography and other objectionable materials from EBSCO.
The admission from EBSCO refuted a defense of the site from the suburban Cherry Creek School District near Denver.
See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”
WND reported in January that parents of a middle-school student there charged that the district’s sex-ed program allows students to access pornographic content and images from an educational company’s website while blocking parents from examining the objectionable material.
The parents enlisted the help of an activist group in Massachusetts to address their concerns.
The district called the claim nonsense, citing the opinion of the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center, which slammed the activist organization, MassResistance, as an “anti-gay hate group.” It’s the same SPLC that called Dr. Ben Carson a “hater” for his views on traditional marriage. SPLC also was linked to domestic terror several years ago when a man convicted of attempted mass murder confessed he used the organization’s list of “anti-gay hate groups” to pick a target, the Family Research Council.
The sex-ed dispute arose when the parents, whose names WND is withholding so their child in the district’sFox Ridge Middle School is not identified, stumbled upon the pornographic material when they were checking their child’s password access.
Many of the discussion materials and images are not suitable for reproducing by WND, butMassResistance, a pro-family group that has been particularly active in school issues for many years, posted some of it on its website.
The information available to students includes “How to have oral sex,” “How to have anal sex” and “How to have vaginal sex.”
MassResistance said in a report: “We’ve often reported on the dramatic influx of ‘comprehensive sex-ed’ into schools across the country in recent years despite vocal outrage by parents. The graphic sexual content and LGBT tips that schools are pushing at students has been very disturbing for some time now, and is getting much worse.”
The group said children attending middle schools in the Cherry Creek School District “are now being given access to extremely graphic sexual and homosexual pornography, material encouraging them to become sexually and homosexually active, descriptions of ‘sex toys,’ and much more.”
MassResistance founder Brian Camenker confirmed he was independently able to reproduce the results uncovered by the Cherry Creek parents.
He said that when the parents “presented samples of the pornography and other explicit sexual material found on the students’ portal to school officials and board members … the officials did not deny that that it is being made available to the middle school students.”
The resource gave students access to sites that “normalize sexual violence, such as a link to a story depicting the rape of a woman using the barrel of a gun, as well as sites that normalize risky sexual behaviors such as public, anal and group sex,” the NCOSE said.
Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the NCOSE, said in a statement that executives for the company, EBSCO, admitted the problem. She said they were trying to address it but that it would remain on her organization’s “Dirty Dozen” list “until … improvements have been implemented system-wide and verified.”
“EBSCO executives contacted NCOSE on February 21 to express their concern about the sexually explicit content accessible via their databases and share that they are actively working to develop new algorithms and better filtering systems,” she explained.
In the meantime, parents and schools need to be on alert, noted NCOSE, which has posted online a list of videos documenting the easy access to pornography and other objectionable materials from EBSCO.
The admission from EBSCO refuted a defense of the site from the suburban Cherry Creek School District near Denver.
See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”
WND reported in January that parents of a middle-school student there charged that the district’s sex-ed program allows students to access pornographic content and images from an educational company’s website while blocking parents from examining the objectionable material.
The parents enlisted the help of an activist group in Massachusetts to address their concerns.
The district called the claim nonsense, citing the opinion of the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center, which slammed the activist organization, MassResistance, as an “anti-gay hate group.” It’s the same SPLC that called Dr. Ben Carson a “hater” for his views on traditional marriage. SPLC also was linked to domestic terror several years ago when a man convicted of attempted mass murder confessed he used the organization’s list of “anti-gay hate groups” to pick a target, the Family Research Council.
The sex-ed dispute arose when the parents, whose names WND is withholding so their child in the district’sFox Ridge Middle School is not identified, stumbled upon the pornographic material when they were checking their child’s password access.
Many of the discussion materials and images are not suitable for reproducing by WND, butMassResistance, a pro-family group that has been particularly active in school issues for many years, posted some of it on its website.
The information available to students includes “How to have oral sex,” “How to have anal sex” and “How to have vaginal sex.”
MassResistance said in a report: “We’ve often reported on the dramatic influx of ‘comprehensive sex-ed’ into schools across the country in recent years despite vocal outrage by parents. The graphic sexual content and LGBT tips that schools are pushing at students has been very disturbing for some time now, and is getting much worse.”
The group said children attending middle schools in the Cherry Creek School District “are now being given access to extremely graphic sexual and homosexual pornography, material encouraging them to become sexually and homosexually active, descriptions of ‘sex toys,’ and much more.”
MassResistance founder Brian Camenker confirmed he was independently able to reproduce the results uncovered by the Cherry Creek parents.
He said that when the parents “presented samples of the pornography and other explicit sexual material found on the students’ portal to school officials and board members … the officials did not deny that that it is being made available to the middle school students.”