ACLJ files a federal lawsuit.
Imagine sending your seventh-grader off to school one morning, believing that the adults in the room will protect their innocence. Now imagine that same child coming home shaken because their teacher selected and projected graphic sexual images onto the classroom Smart Board, images so explicit that even the teacher admitted, on the spot, that “some of them were inappropriate.”
That is exactly what happened to our clients, Stephanie and Jessy, after their middle school children walked into Ms. Bridgette Gates’ art class, and it’s why the ACLJ has launched a federal lawsuit against the Watertown City School District – the district that employs Ms. Gates.
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Under the banner of an “art project,” Ms. Gates instructed the entire class to visit an unvetted, unfiltered website. No content warning. No parental notification. No age-appropriate safeguards. Just a free-for-all link that immediately served pornography to a room full of minors. When the explicit material was projected onto the giant screen, the teacher’s response wasn’t to shut it down. It was to shrug, acknowledge that yes, some of the images were inappropriate, and then instruct the children to “be mature.”
Let that sink in. A grown educator told 12-year-olds to “be mature” in the face of pornography that many adults would find disturbing.
This wasn’t a one-time “mistake” where a bad link slipped through. For roughly two weeks, the seventh-graders were required – as a graded assignment – to make return visits to the unfiltered website brimming with graphic sexual images. No parental heads-up. No opt-out. No alternative project. Our client only found out by pure chance when they glanced at their children’s school-issued laptop. The teacher’s response was classic deflection: finger-pointing at tech support even though she had already conceded the inappropriateness in front of the class, yet still proceeded with the assignment.
Then came the gaslighting. The district sent out an appalling message saying students had merely “come across inappropriate content.” Come across? They didn’t stumble onto it while googling Monet. Their teacher assigned it, projected it, and graded them on it for half a month. --->READ MORE HERE
A school got caught pushing young students to an explicit porn site, but when a demand letter sent on behalf of parents failed to produce results, the American Center for Law and Justice filed a federal lawsuit.
“Parents should not be forced to choose between public education and their family’s values. The Constitution draws a bright line: Parents, not the state, decide how and when their children are introduced to sexual content. Schools are not free to override that authority or to ‘correct’ the family’s moral instruction through compulsory exposure to explicit material,” explained the legal team.
“When officials discard that line, the courts must restore it. The ACLJ is taking decisive legal action to protect children, vindicate parents’ rights, and compel this school district – and other districts watching – to adopt clear, enforceable policies that respect the Constitution. We are resolute: No student should be forced to view pornography in class. No parent should be kept in the dark.”
The district is the Watertown School District in New York.
The complaint charges that the district forced seventh-grade students to view blatantly pornographic images during class “over multiple days” without any parental notice, consent, or opt-out opportunity.
“What happened in the Watertown City School District was not an accident. It was a constitutional violation of the highest order,” the ACLJ report explained.
It was the seventh-grade art teacher, Bridgette Gates, who “instructed her students to visit an external website displaying the artwork of a highly controversial artist whose work is known for sexual imagery. Despite this knowledge, the link she assigned led directly to galleries filled with uncensored depictions of graphic sexual content – imagery so explicit that news outlets later had to blur it in their coverage,” the report said.
“Even worse, the teacher told students that ‘some of the images were inappropriate.’ Still, she instructed them to ‘ignore them and be mature’ and proceeded to require the children to complete a graded assignment analyzing the pornographic content for up to two weeks,” the ACLJ reported. --->READ MORE HERE
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