Students Get X-Rated Lesson
Categories: Weird But True, Education
Shocked students get schooled in pornography. Image: Annie Andre/sxc.hu
The incident occurred on May 29 in the auditorium of PS 17 in Williamsburg. After a teacher turned on the DVD player and walked away to retrieve the family-friendly Disney film, a DVD that was already in the machine began playing. Up on the jumbo screen popped Jenna Jameson doing what she does best - being raunchy.
As panicked teachers yelled "Don't look at it!" and frantically tried to stop the movie, the children got an eyeful of a topless Jameson performing an undisclosed sex act. This went on for about 45 second before someone had the presence of mind to pull the plug on the DVD player and end the show.
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Word of the incident quickly spread to the students' parents, who are understandably upset. "My son told his friend he saw a naked lady at school," says Rona Easton, whose 6-year-old son was in the audience. "I thought he was just being silly. It's appalling."
It is appalling and also a bit of a mystery. Just how did an X-rated film end up in the school's DVD player? The answer to that question may lie in determining just where the player was located prior to the film festival. Initial reports had it locked in Principal Robert Marchi's office, but parents were later told that it may have been moved to an unlocked office where it was accessible to anyone and everyone.
Of course, there are those who think the whole thing is funny and that the parents are making a big deal over nothing. But Principal Marchi isn't laughing and vows to get to the bottom of the matter. "A very explicit pornographic video came on the screen," he wrote in a note to parents. "This was extremely upsetting to the students and staff members in attendance . . . I am deeply sorry that this episode took place at PS 17. I know that we will make every effort to find out who was responsible for this despicable act."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Amanda 6-15-2009 @ 8:19PM
A "normal sex act" is NOT what those children were exposed to. Pornography is NOT normal, moral, safe, good, healthy, acceptable, or ANYTHING positive. It has ruined many men, women, marriages, and families. To think it is OK is just throwing more fuel on the fire of what our society has turned sex into. If you can't understand that, you are part of the problem.
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Kayla 6-16-2009 @ 9:50AM
If you are not doing the stuff in the porns then you are missing out. Of course noone wants their kids to see it.
Julie 6-16-2009 @ 6:29PM
To all you people that think this is bad thing. Lighten up! . Nobody was harm by this. None of those kids probably gave this a second thought. It happened WHOOPS. Move on with life. To all those posters here who think pornography is a bad thing, I had never seen a group more in need of an orgy then you.
whogivaashit 6-15-2009 @ 8:25PM
it is N Y City, that liberal based mucked up place is as bad as it can get. those children have been exsposed to worse, Hell Mayor bloomburg is bad for them as a dummycrat
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ccwstauffer 6-15-2009 @ 10:20PM
Good grief, what a moronic statement..........what the hell does this have to do with politics? You need to consider getting some mental health help if you are this obsessed with democrats
AJ 6-16-2009 @ 9:38AM
First, Bloomberg is a republican, second, New York is not heaven on earth but where might that be. Unless you live in Amish town, children are likely to be exposed to many things they shouldn't be. And who knows what they may not see there.
bob 6-22-2009 @ 8:22PM
NOT KINDERGERDENERS! 6th grade or highr, maybe but kindergardeners?????
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treesgyrl 6-15-2009 @ 8:44PM
I would be terribly upset if this happened at my son's school. My children have not seen worse than this on tv, since we are sure to pay close attention to what they watch, and there are not many channels they are allowed to have access to. Sex is a normal, natural part of life for ADULTS, not grade school children. Children are only children for a very short time of their lives, and it is our job and responsibility as parents to help then hold on to their innocence as long as possible. These poor children lost some of their innocence. I feel bad for them.
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warren garrison 6-15-2009 @ 9:04PM
idiots like you are out there in mass and then you fools wonder why pedophilers are on the rise. Maybe that's why you're backing this crap, what, does it just bring the world a little lower to your level. LIke I said in my other post, it's dumbasses like you who applaud and encourage drugs, the use of drugs, the legalization of drugs and check out the present situation of the little girl in Italy accused of murder. Her dad applauds her as an upstanding, moral, sensible, intelligent individual with character and integrity. And yet she's screwing the boyfriend she met a few days earlier, she doesn't remember a lot of things because "SHE WAS HIGH" and again, idiots like you believe this is ok. The kid that was recently left in the car to fry while his dad ran back in the house to do his drugs and forget the kids thinks you're a fool, and so do I.
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Elizabeth 6-15-2009 @ 9:04PM
Unless YOU are a pedophile, you should have the good sense to know SEX is NOT normal for young children. It is for ADULTS and even some adults find porno disgusting. I hardly think hard core sex acts are performed on TV, so even if the parents are not the most diligent in monitoring programming, the kids will not be exposed to this kind of thing. It makes me wonder if you are a pedophile. Seriously, if you think that parents are "protecting" their children by NOT showing them porn. Next you will suggest the parents just get out there and do it in front of the kids because it is "natural".
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Marco 6-16-2009 @ 8:40PM
WTF? "Pedophile"? Is this a serious comment? Were you born next to a nuclear plant or something?
jim 6-15-2009 @ 9:11PM
BRAVO! It's about time we stopped 'protecting' these kids anyway. Most 7 year olds know more than my generation did when it married anyway. So how about acting accordingly and EXPLAINING what goes on like parents SHOULD. I promise you if you DON'T, little Johnny and Susie are going to learn from the 7 year old down the block.
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paul 6-15-2009 @ 9:37PM
i wonder which teacher or faculty member is missing thier dvd
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Jack 6-15-2009 @ 9:41PM
Maybe if it had been a Gay movie, there wouldn't be the commotion about this. While it is regretable, and whoever did leave it in the video should be disciplined, these children will not be scarred for life. The younger ones probably won't even remember it happened a year from now.
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cindi 6-17-2009 @ 6:44AM
You have to be living in la la land if you think the little ones will forget it in a yr. Their little minds retain things that are shocking. I have 3 kid. My oldest is 20 he went through public school until his sophomore yr, then we home schooled him. We had a meeting with the Principal of his school many times about what was happening in the school. Found a not in his pocket one day while doing laundry. Some one was inviting him into a gang, We contacted the DARE Officer and met with the Principal. Our son was in the 4Th grade. He named names and turned in the gang members and drug dealers. Named people and we ask for them to deal with the gang issue, and bring in the drug dogs. We were told no on both. According to the Principal they didn't have a drug or gang problem. The DARE Officer was a fairly young gentleman and he told the Principal that there was a drug problem when he was in the school. This was a K8 We went to the Superintendent's office. were told that if it didn't happen at school they would go to the park after school. So what was the difference. This the kind of things happening everyday in our schools. I can't believe people are blowing this off. Schools are hiring druggies, dealers and pedophiles. They don't care what happens to the kids. There are some who truly care for our kids, but schools are letting some of the scum in. We have chosen to home school our 13 and 8 yr old instead of leave them in that environment. When my daughter was test with the Stanford Test, we found out she was a grade behind. She had been an A Honor Roll student in public school. That should tell you how well our public schools are doing. I recommend home schooling to anyone who can. Both kids had A's in all their classes. They work hard and are really learning and retaining the material. Instead of learning for a test the are learning the material and will pass the test because they are actually learning it. I don't have to worry about if the kids gave a drug user/dealer and worst nightmare a pedophile would be teaching them. We have to take the time and responsibility to take care of our kids. I know many people don't agree with me but that is fine. My kids are my responsibility and I take that very seriously.
blahblahblah 6-15-2009 @ 9:45PM
Not advocating porn, but I would rather my kids see sex than violence. You can explain that sex is natural. Violence is not. NO, the kids should not have been exposed to porn. But, would the parents have freaked out if it were Rambo or the Terminator movie? Probably not. . .
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Dameon 6-19-2009 @ 1:36AM
While I agree that as a whole our nation is far too uptight about sex, this sort of thing is way out of line. Any school employee who thinks bringing porn to school was at all a remotely acceptable idea should be fired. Even if it was never intended to be shown to children the risk is undeniably there.
As an extension, though, I do think that people who promote abstinence-only education for teenagers are extremely misguided, and many studies have come to that conclusion as well. The internet and social networking today has allowed teens to see all the porn they want once they are old enough to have the desire to do so. The best thing we as parents can do is talk to them about it (no matter how uncomfortable that may be), provide them with all the information, and encourage them to make their own decisions. If you think your teens aren't finding out this information on their own without any kind of adult guidance, well, I'd say 99% of you are dead wrong.
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steven 6-15-2009 @ 10:02PM
Parents: GET OVER IT! It wasn't two MEN!
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b26g116 6-15-2009 @ 10:11PM
This is shocking to hear for me personally. I have 3 children and none of them have ever come close to seeing anything such as this. My husband and I don't believe in porographic material or any related thing. I am very honest with my children even with them at young ages, but something like this is something that could scar a child for life. This type of material should never have been in the building even if supposedly it was in an unlocked room. I don't doubt for a second that the principal is the one responsible or a teacher. Who else is really going to have the time or the access and knowledge of time schedules? All communities and schools should see this as a warning on what is going on in the public and take better precautions to shield our children from this type of thing. My oldest starts preschool in a few months and this is this type of complication that makes me want to homeschool that much more. How do we not worry about sending our children to school with drunk or "buzzed" bus drivers and school adminitrations that apparently are careless?
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otherwise_concerned_parent 6-16-2009 @ 1:06AM
I agree that showing little kids porn is a bad thing, but to be honest I think it is way worse to show them all the violence in movies, news and games that seems to be tolerated just fine by pretty much everybody! Even hard core porn is more natural than all that bloodshed that is on TV everyday on almost every channel. The worst of it all is those shoot'em up games where we let our kids take an active role in causing the bloodshed, especially the realistic looking ones. I would say get our priorities straight and fix that violence problem first than take action against the porn.