School Laptops a Porn Gateway for Middle Schoolers

A North Carolina mother says her 11-year-old son was exposed to pornography in the classroom via another student's laptop.

"It's not the kind of thing, at 11 years old, that he should be learning," she said. "He said it was disgusting and he wishes he could unsee it."

The mom said her son was sitting in his middle school class when another student accessed porn on his school-issued laptop.

She said her son told her "it's what you told me people do when they're married and they love each other, but this wasn't love."

When it happened again, this time with several kids watching porn in his cafeteria at Parkwood Middle School in Monroe, the mother turned to school administrators.

She said they told her "the kids are very smart. They'll get around anything we do and all we can do as a school is monitor it the best we can."

A spokeswoman for the Union County Public Schools said the district does take Internet safety very seriously.

The district issued a statement saying, "UCPS is in the process of transitioning to a more robust web system to address this and other issues."

Across the country, many school districts are rushing to buy tablets and other computers for every student.

They're hoping to meet a deadline for new online standardized tests that will align with the Common Core, national education standards adopted by more than 40 states.

Research on the value of such technology as it relates to student achievement is mixed. However, most agree that better safeguards are needed for online pornography in schools.

How can parents equip themselves to help their children? President of Enough Is Enough and Executive Producer and Instructor of the Emmy Award-winning "Internet Safety 101" television series, Donna Rice Hughes answered this question and more on CBN News.

You can make a difference!
Call you your local PBS provider and ask them to air the "Enough Is Enough®” TV series. Tell them it is available through NETA. 
Go to InternetSafety101.org and sign the P*rn Free WiFi petition. You can also learn more at Enough.org.