OUR COMMITMENT
Mission Statement
We are a non profit organization, dedicated to ensuring that the children attending our schools and libraries are provided with a safe, nuturing learning environment, safe from negative, destructive, and damaging influences. Critical to this mission, is the removal of pornographic material, images, advertisements, and videos from any school database products.
Pornography has no place in any school or library.
If you wouldn't put it on the shelves where parents can see, why are you hiding it in a database?
The Nature of the Problem: The Porn Industry in our Schools
The Trojan Horse in our schools: So called, "Research Databases" are widely used in K-12 schools and in public libraries as "Homework Tools" across the US, Canada and globally (warning: adult content)
We have a 5 minute video (below) to get some quick facts, and then we encourage all parents and educators to Listen to our webinar produced in collaboration with the Protect Child Health Coalition for a more in depth analysis of the problem.
5 minute video: Warning - Video Contains Adult Content
Is the Porn Industry in Your Child's School?
- K-12 educational technology has the potential to enhance learning but we call on our educational leaders to set standards!
- Popular Ed Tech products called "Research Databases" - funded by taxpayers - have come under fire for embedded porn, sex shop ads, adult erotic literature, and even live links to PornHub. This impacts students at Public and some Private schools as well as Homeschooled children using public libraries!
Our Children Are Not A Target Market For Pornographers!
Database vendors, such as EBSCO and others, promise their publishing /advertising partners broad access to K-12 schools for market expansion and product recognition. What does this means for students? Are school aged children being exploited as a marketplace for the sex industry?
Take Action Now! Demand that K-12 school and public library Research Database products comply with state and federal obscenity statutes for minors!
1. Contact the United States Dept. of Education at edpartners@ed.gov to express concern about pornography in "school tech" database products such as those made by EBSCO and Cengage GALE
2. Our ally organization, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation offers a wealth of information about safety issues related to school technology - sign the letter to EBSCO executives!
3. Sign the petition regarding EBSCO and GALE databases and take the short survey offered by the Worldwide Organization of Women
4. Contact your legislators. Remind them that 16 states have declared pornography to be a health hazard! School Tech products should be safe and free from sexually exploitative content.
5. Contact the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and ask them to stop using federal tax dollars to support school tech products that contain porn
202-653-IMLS (4657)
imlsinfo@imls.gov
6. If your child has been exposed to pornography through school products, consider filing a Sexual Harassment complaint under Title IX . Teachers must be protected, also, from a hostile work environment - nobody should be subjected to pornography through school tech.
7. Contact your state and local school Boards and make sure they understand the problem. Do not take No as an acceptable answer!
8. Contact your state and local libraries and demand they remove "homework tools" that target minors with database products that contain porn.
9. Express your outrage to the multinational corporations profiting from unsafe school tech products:
David Walker, CEO EBSCO 205.991.6600, Michael Hansen CEO Cengage GALE (800) 354-9706
10. Contact news media and use social media where possible to raise awareness!
Help Fight the Global Attack on our Children!
Your support will help us achieve our mission to ensure only safe and healthy products are supplied to our school children. Help make this a permanent reality.
Thank you!
