This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The latest outbreak of what is a growing problem – schoolchildren accessing X-rated and other explicit content on school iPads or websites – has left a government education official demanding action.
It is the Christian Institute that is reporting the Scottish Government's education secretary is calling for action, following an episode where children as young as 10 in Edinburgh were able to access porn on school iPads.
Jenny Gilruth, MSP, contacted local councils across Scotland to ensure that "safety protocols are regularly reviewed" to guarantee that the issue "is not replicated in other parts of the country," the institute reported.
One parent confirmed that students as young as 10 and 11 were able to view explicit images like "erotic hanging, strangulation and drowning … and theoretically unlimited porn" by misspelling blocked terms, the report said.
Miles Briggs, the MSP for Lothian, warned, "This incident is a wakeup call for Edinburgh council and the Scottish government to ensure that robust measures are put in place, so that this does not happen again."
A lawmaker on Edinburgh's Education, Children and Families Committee said the priority now is the safety of children, and possible enhancements are being reviewed in light of the situation.
The government actually has a law for online safety, and its requirements are being implemented on a phased basis.
The same situation – offensive X-rated and other materials – also has appeared periodically in the United States.
A few years ago, officials at Pacific Justice Institute went to court in a fight between the Florida Citizens Alliance and the Broward County Public Schools.
At that time the school was declining to comply with public records requests concerning whether it was exposing children to porn.
WND also reported a few years earlier on a fight that developed in Colorado over a school district's decision to give children access to an online database that contained offensive material.
A lawsuit at the time named EBSCO, the online library company, for allegedly brokering "pornographic database to schools and libraries."
It was the Cherry Creek School District that at that time discontinued its contract with EBSCO after parents complained.
Information that had been available to students included "How to have oral sex," "How to have anal sex" and "How to have vaginal sex."
The non-profit MassResistance discovered at the time EBSCO works with 55,000 schools.
