I was asked if the Plymouth Regional School District in NH uses the Sora Library. The Sora Student Library App was recently criticized in the NH House of Representatives for including dangerous hyperlinks to adult dating sites. So I investigated which library resources were used in the Plymouth Regional School District. I found so much more than I was expecting.
Yes, I found the Sora Library App, which has a standard catalog called “The Shared NH Collection.” It’s a catalog of over 8000 low-cost books for a nominal price.
The Sora app also contains books with dangerous hyperlinks, as asserted at the statehouse.
Yes, that’s a hyperlink to a dating site. KIDS are linked to sex seeking adults and taught how to use sex apps. The book goes on to give every detail about what the adults are looking for. Handies, blowies, bumming, anal douching, and anal sex. It teaches “boy on boy sex” (sex for kids) and insists everyone has anal sex, even straight people. The back of the book has about a dozen open hyperlinks to adult resources, such as how to get married when you’re underage.
The Sora Library App and the Plymouth Regional School District’s physical school library maintain total privacy for their students. There is no record of their reading or search history. Parents cannot find out if their child has been reading or linking to adult content.
A Special Library
What I wasn’t expecting was a special cultivated section in the student library JUST for sexuality explicit books. Not just LGBTQ+ content, but straight up explicitly sexual books with details beyond a parent’s imagination. Adult books. The content is NOT sex education, it’s sexual EXPLOITATION. Hyperlinking to adult only apps, lessons and pictures of blow jobs, anal douching instructions, rape stories, incest details. Why is there a CHILDREN’S library for sexual content??? What moral boundaries have we crossed here???
It says it’s a “curated collection” of LGBTQ+ titles. It’s SO much MORE than that. The hyperlinks and special resources lead you to a whole new world of sexual content. It’s a curated sex trap for underage readers.
If you don’t know which sexual book will turn you on, they even offer “The Blind Date Book Club”, a matchmaking service to deliver sexual books straight to kids’ school Chromebooks. I’m not kidding.
Plymouth Regional School District’s library options will shock your soul. More is NOT better. Managing a school library has become a race to get access to the most, instead of giving access to only the best. Kids are being connected to everything, as if they are adults with good judgment. Not ALL of our kids are mature enough to manage this type of sexual content. What’s the solution?
MORE???
Or maybe cultivate an age-appropriate library for our K-12 NH students?
