{"id":2620,"date":"2019-01-06T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2019-01-06T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:49:36","slug":"utah-schools-temporarily-put-a-halt-on-dangerous-ebsco-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/utah-schools-temporarily-put-a-halt-on-dangerous-ebsco-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Schools Temporarily Put a Halt on Dangerous EBSCO Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t take many people to make a difference, often just facts presented to school administrators by a handful of parents is all that is needed.\u00a0 In this case, a small group of concerned parents went to the Utah Education Network (UEN) about EBSCO, the on-line research library used in many schools across the country.<\/p>\n

The controversy started when a parent from the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado<\/a> accidently found obscene material on her son’s\u00a0EBSCO link through his school.\u00a0 From there, word has slowly spread across the country about the dangerous links as more<\/a> districts are found to have ties to EBSCO or something similar<\/a>.\u00a0 In Utah, a parent checked a school’s on-line data base and sure enough it is EBSCO.\u00a0 Thankfully,\u00a0UEN pulled the plug on EBSCO\u00a0while they investigated.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/beyond-the-books\/conservative-groups-work-to-end-utahs-partnership-with-data-base-company-ebsco<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice the writer refers to the concerned parents as “conservative.”\u00a0 Does it really matter?\u00a0 Are they implying anyone who votes as a Democrat has no care in the world what their child is exposed to in school?\u00a0 The writers clearly chose the wording to marginalize and accuse.\u00a0\u00a0If the images the parents found were\u00a0controversial only to “conservatives”, why did the\u00a0television station they work for\u00a0choose to blot out the image in one of the photos the paper published?<\/p>\n

\"\"Not long after Utah halted the EBSCO links to further investigate, it was reported in October 2018 EBSCO would be reinstated.\u00a0 This article<\/a> explains why and of course, makes sure to label that pesky Utah parent as “conservative.”\u00a0 How dare she dictate standards to everyone else (but EBSCO, a company designed to profit off kids, can dictate standards).\u00a0 In the article it was stated the shutting down of EBSCO created difficulty for the students researching.\u00a0 It’s too bad they don’t know how to find the nearest public library and check out a couple books for their research projects.\u00a0 What a lost art.<\/p>\n

If EBSCO was reinstated, why\u00a0does the Utah Education Network still have the site down as of this writing?<\/p>\n

\"\"Good for them, at least two more months went by that\u00a0EBSCO’s porn and obscenity weren’t available to Utah’s students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t take many people to make a difference, often just facts presented to school administrators by a handful of parents is all that is needed.\u00a0 In this case, a small group of concerned parents went to the Utah Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}