{"id":188276,"date":"2018-09-24T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188276"},"modified":"2018-09-20T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:13:38","slug":"school-district-stops-porn-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/school-district-stops-porn-database\/","title":{"rendered":"School district’s porn filled database is finally gone after parents revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A school district with a thorny history of sexual assaults is finally agreeing to stop exposing its students to sexually graphic information on a student database. The Cherry Creek School District in Colorado has finally stopped using an EBSCO database that is laden with hard core pornography, the Thomas More Society reports<\/a>. The stoppage was a result of two years of parental pressure in the embattled district.<\/p>\n

Thomas More reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Parents are claiming a major victory after one of the largest school districts in Colorado acknowledged on September 7, 2018 that it has discontinued purchasing or using any products for students from EBSCO, a company that embeds pornography in its databases marketed for unsuspecting school children across the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the last two years, a group of parents and citizens \u2013 with recent assistance from the Thomas More Society \u2013 have waged an unrelenting struggle against the Denver-area Cherry Creek School District. Parents have requested either that the district require EBSCO to clean up its database for school children or cancel its EBSCO contract altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ: Washington school allows Planned Parenthood \u2018educator\u2019 to teach fifth grade sex ed<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

EBSCO’s databases are known worldwide for their access to myriad research materials. And while a doctoral dissertation student may find it easy to stick to the research topic at hand and benefit from the many legitimate sources the database provides, a fourth grader shouldn’t have to risk encountering pornography while doing a report on Holland.<\/p>\n

According to its website<\/a>, EBSCO is a “family-owned” business that seemingly didn’t consider family when curating its “Elementary School” research texts.<\/p>\n

EBSCO provides database access to a reported 55,000+ elementary, middle, and high schools in the U.S. Thomas More says it portrays “its databases for school children specifically as being age-appropriate and reliable. But unknown to most parents, the databases are anything but safe or kid-friendly.” Thomas More explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Starting in September 2016, parents in Aurora discovered that these databases marketed for school children contain substantial amounts of easily accessible, hardcore pornography. And they discovered that the EBSCO database system renders inoperable school internet filters and private, parent-supplied internet filters.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unsuspecting school children, believing themselves to be using a safe school research database, can easily stumble into these sexually explicit materials while searching otherwise benign topics on EBSCO databases.<\/em><\/p>\n

But it wasn’t just Colorado parents who were upset about the EBSCO porn content. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation<\/a> (NCOSE) has included the database on its last two annual \u201cDirty Dozen” lists, where it reports on the absolute worst 12 corporations in America, to “name and shame the mainstream players in America that perpetuate sexual exploitation\u2014whether that be through pornography, prostitution, sexual objectification, sexual violence and\/or sex trafficking.”<\/p>\n

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NCOSE’s page on EBSCO<\/a> should be a concern to all parents. As the organization shows, many children are being exposed to such non-research materials as “21 sex tips” which “encourage readers to film their sex acts together,” among other things.<\/p>\n

*Video warning: sexually graphic material discussed, and brief sexualized images are shown.<\/em><\/p>\n