Picture from CBBC Newshound
I am mortified!
I subscribe to all of my blogs listed in the sidebar via my Google feed reader, and I received the latest from one of the math blogs I subscribe to and I am livid! There was a very inappropriate picture - especially for an education blog!
If you clicked on it and were offended, please accept my apology! That blog has been removed and I am in the process of checking my other blogs.
2 comments:
I didn't click on it, but don't worry.
We all make mistakes on the internet because most of us are trusting people. I once completed a project for an educational publisher where I was suppose to include websites for fourth grade kids to visit.
One of the websites contained some very explicit photos of a high ranking official in California in his former undressed days!
I didn't catch it, but thankfully the editor did!
Jan - what a great editor you have! I need one of those - lol! I really did feel just awful about it! I don't think I get that many actual readers, but I could just imagine someone clicking on it like I did with their kids in the room and being shocked. Some people are more laid back about that stuff than others. Some would go absolutely ballistic if it happened to them, and some wouldn't. You never know. My kids weren't paying any attention to me (I wasn't on the phone or doing anything important - lol).
It was totally out of character for the web site - and I've been a fan of it for many years. So, after I scrambled to get their link off my blog (in more than one place) I went back and commented on the inappropriateness of it...I was pretty upset. A little while later, I went back to the web site to see if the author had commented on my post. The author had taken the post with the picture down and put up another post without the picture, and had put a warning that the link wasn't for kids.
So, I went to the link and found out that it was about a college that had some big party with the theme being "safer s*x" and how the college staff were surprised that some very inappropriate things went on as a result. Anyway, it was a good article about the stupidity of the college staff, and her comments reflected that as well. She probably shouldn't have used the picture from the web site, but the article itself was fine. I still like the web site and will probably put them back on my blog at a later time.
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