Parents are starting to feel like public school is no longer a safe place for their children to go for an education. That’s what one New Hampshire parent told me recently. Enrollment continues to decline along with proficiency scores in the core academic subjects.
You would think that administrators and school board members would be concerned, but sadly many are not.
Recently a couple of parents in the Hillsboro Deering (SAU34) school district attended their school board meeting to discuss the reading material available to children in the district through the SORA app. (Click on November and listen at 49 minute mark, and then at 1:34 minutes they talk a little bit about the App and then again at 2:22 ) The SORA app offers children pornographic and obscene material to read.
If you look at the schools providing the SORA subscription service to children, you can see that many schools across New Hampshire now provide this service to children. You can also read and see some of the content provided in one of the pornographic books here: This Book Is Gay:
You get the idea. This book pushes sex on the child.
Parents are fed up across the country. In Idaho, there is pending legislation file criminal charges against the people working in the schools who disseminate “harmful materials” to children. It may be time for New Hampshire legislators to do the same. If administrators do not see the harm they are allowing to happen under their nose, it’s time for the people to take action.
Parents object to books assigned to their children for may reasons. This is why New Hampshire passed a law several years ago that allows parents to opt out of objectionable materials assigned to their children. But pornography or obscenity should never be offered to children. It’s one thing to object and replace materials that you don’t like, it’s another when the material is pornographic. We know that this kind of material should not be made available to children in school.
Child sexual predators sometimes work in public schools. In this recent story, Connecticut School Director Placed “On Leave” After Detailing Sexual Fantasies with Minor Students, reminds parents that any kind of sexualization of their children can help a child sexual predator working in the school.
Parents will have to go into the school to access the SORA app per Hillsboro Deering Superintendent Jennifer Crawford. So much for transparency. If you want to see the pornography your child can access, she expects you to make an appointment to come and see it. She’s ok with handing the porn to your children through the subscription to SORA.
She also referred children in middle school as “young adults,” and children in high school are now referred to “adults.” Pedophiles seeking to lower the age of consent must be thrilled by all of this. Some of them have tried to replace the term “pedophile” with “minor attracted persons.”
An English teacher at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas instructed students to not judge someone just because they want to have sex with a 5 year old and told them to call them “minor Attracted Persons instead.
Is it easier to just pretend that these children are adults or nearing adulthood? What this Superintendent did by recategorizing children as adults or nearing adulthood should concern every parent who has children in the Hillsboro Deering school district.
According to medicine and psychology
The fields of medicine and psychology have their own unique views of what it means to be a young adult.
Psychology. One of the most influential psychologists on the topic of life stages, Erik Erikson, defined young adulthood as a crucial stage that happens after adolescence. It’s the point in life when a person emphasizes “identity formation.”
Based on Erikson’s research, most people reach this stage between the ages of 19 and 39. But because individuals reach this point at different ages, due to a number of factors, there’s no absolute timeline for young adulthood, according to Erikson.
Medicine. In the field of health, medicine, and human development, young adulthood is the time when a person is traditionally the most healthy. It’s the stage between adolescence and adulthood, which roughly falls between the ages of 15 and 29.
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics describes young adults as individuals aged 18-24.
So what does science have to say about young adulthood? With so many potential age ranges floating around, it seems like scientific study should be able to narrow down when, exactly, young adulthood actually occurs. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), young adulthood is generally defined as18 to 22 or 18 to 25.
I guess if you are pushing pornography on children, it helps to redefine these terms so it doesn’t appear as if you are pushing pornography on children. Redefining children as “young adults or adults,” removes the stigma. Who does that help? It will certainly help child sexual predators.
Listen to the school board meeting in Hillsboro Deering where the Superintendent calls a children in middle school young adults and high school students, adults. These people are setting up a pathway for sexual predators to access your children. Listen to how she avoids the real issue of the pornographic content your children can now access
Some may argue that children can access this information through the internet anyway. That may be true for some, but the public schools should never be a source for pornography or sexualizing children! Teens may also be having sex, but the schools should not provide a private room with a bed in it.
Public schools are there to teach children the academics, but sadly we can see that they are failing at that task. COVID didn’t help, which makes you think that they’d want to focus on improving academic outcomes.
In Hillsboro Deering, you can hear the parents describe the pornographic material that is found in a few of the books on the SORA app. What is extremely disturbing is how the Superintendent takes time to explain how the app works. No where does she describe the graphic nature of what’s presented in the books available to children. Maybe she can’t bring herself to admit publicly that these books are grooming and sexualizing the children in her school.
The book one parent references gives children graphic descriptions on how to have sex, and where to meet up with partners. This isn’t the biological facts that students learn when it comes to reproduction, it’s a detailed guide on how to give hand-jobs, and blow-jobs, etc. They are sexualizing children– there is no other way to describe it.
The frightening part of all of this is how the books promote hooking up, and how to do that with adult services. Match.com is one of those dating sites, but if you go to Match.com, they have an age restriction of 18 to access their services. Even Match.com knows this isn’t appropriate for children. It makes you wonder how this has become acceptable to administrators working in our public schools. So why provide that information to children, if not to help adults access minors?
Recently a screenshot from one of the pages in the book was posted on a Facebook page alerting parents to what their children can access through the SORA app. Facebook removed the post and suspended the account because of their “community standards.” Where are our community standards in our public schools?
This is a WIN for child sexual predators. The public schools are not only grooming and sexualizing children, but directing those children to adult websites so they can then hook up with pedophiles, and adults looking to sexually abuse your children. One parent rightfully called this …pimping out our kids. She said school administrators are essentially pimping out her kids with this kind of information.
These people shouldn’t be in charge of any institution where children are present, and yet they are in charge of our public schools.
Keep this up and you can expect more families to remove their children from the public schools. These people aren’t helping, they are destroying public education. If they cannot see the potential harm from this, how can they possibly protect your children?
Jennifer Crawford said that parents can “opt out” of the SORA app, but they will never take responsibility if a child ends up harmed. It’s kind of like offering access to Hustler magazine, and then telling parents that they can opt out.
As public schools try to remain relevant, we can see that decisions like these contribute to the mass exodus from the local public schools. With the expanding school choice programs in New Hampshire, parents will now have other options available to them. When the teachers union, New Hampshire School Boards Association, or School Administrators Association objects to offering school choice to New Hampshire families, they need to start talking to the people in charge who make such poor decisions for their schools. Instead of trying to force families to stay in these schools, start working on making them better so parents aren’t forced to remove their children.
When school administrators decide to go back to focusing on a quality public education, this is what will help public schools in New Hampshire. It’s not a difficult strategy to improving public education, so why is it so difficult for so many administrators in this state?
