Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum - Safe Schools, Safe Students
Sunday, March 13, 2005
 
Is the MCPS BOE Admitting to Providing "Adult Content" to Underage Children?

After hearing about the new MCPS Board of Education's Cucumber and Condom video, a parent wrote the BOE about it. In their email message they used the EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as in the video:

"oral, or anal or vaginal sex"
Their message did not get through to the Board of Education. The parent received this auto response:

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:44 AM
To: Undisclosed Recipient
Subject: Content Filtering Notification

This is an automatically generated notification.

The message referenced in the details below was not delivered due to inappropriate content. It surpassed the threshold set in the Adult Content dictionary.

The action on the message fell into the following category:

Messages that were dropped (Content Filtering)

If you believe the message was blocked in error, please resend it...and include the name of the intended recipient so it can be forwarded.

E-mail Administrator, Montgomery County Public Schools

This is simply OUTRAGEOUS! What kind of dual faced double standard is THIS???? The MCPS Board of Education thinks it is appropriate to 'educate' our children about "oral, or anal or vaginal sex", but at the same time the Board of Education admits that it NOT APPROPRIATE to let a parent's email with a question about their child's education use the exact same language because it is "inappropriate content" that "surpassed the threshold set in the Adult Content dictionary".

Is the BOE admitting here (demonstrating here?) that it is providing Adult Content to underage children?




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