School-supplied netbook computers are being used by Australian children, as young as 10, to gain access to pornography.
It was found that at least five students at one country primary school were caught watching porn on the machines at home.
One angry father, who was not named, said he was shocked to walk in and see ‘full-on’ images on the screen in his grade 5 son’s bedroom, and that his son was embarrassed.
“I went into his room and I couldn’t believe it. He was a bit sheepish,” the Herald Sun quoted him as saying.
The father said he’d been led to believe the computer, leased from Ouyen P-12 College, had filtering software, but he found out the school filtered the net only on its wireless network.
After the man raised his concerns with the school council, a check of students’ Internet browser histories revealed at least another four students had either deliberately or accidentally surfed porn websites.
Ouyen P-12 College principal Leanne Dawes said the school had technical advice that filtering software on the computers would clash with its own wireless Internet security system, blocking students’ access to educational material.
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