Frisco ISD: District apologizes over post on social media page

FRISCO, Texas — A Texas school district has issued an apology on social media after a highschool social media account shared a picture providing “self-love” recommendation that mentioned utilizing intercourse toys may assist one overcome anxiousness.

Rep. Jared Patterson, – who represents the Texas House district together with Frisco – posted a photo of what seemed to be a post shared from the Emerson High School counselors Instagram account, which was really an commercial for a vibrator. The post was deleted and the account claimed it had been hacked. 

The shared post told potential customers that “toys can help you overcome sexual anxiety,” whereas one other half mentioned to “explore until you find something that works for you.”

“The sexualization of our kids has to stop. The lack of accountability has to stop. The lies have to stop. The cover ups have to stop,” Patterson, whose youngsters attend FISD colleges, mentioned in an Aug. 22 Facebook post. 

“Why anyone thinks it’s okay to promote sexually explicit materials to our children is beyond me. A culture where any staff member thinks this is acceptable behavior is highly concerning. Where is the accountability? As an elected representative of the people and policy maker, does the Board President have an opinion on whether any of this is appropriate?”

On Aug. 23, the Frisco ISD Government Affairs Facebook page issued the following apology, stating they realized the account was not hacked and a employees member in command of the account didn’t really learn the textual content of the picture and thought it was merely “about self care”: 

“On Friday, in response to a tweet from Representative Jared Patterson about inappropriate content material shared from a campus social media account, we shared one other post from that account stating that the inappropriate content material was shared as a result of the account was hacked. Later that afternoon, we realized that the account was not hacked and the post with that information was not true. As a end result, we deleted our reply tweet as a result of we didn’t need to proceed sharing what we had realized was inaccurate information.

Over the previous a number of days, District and campus directors decided {that a} employees member reposted the content material from one other account believing it to be content material about self care with out really studying the textual content of the post. Later, when the employees member realized their mistake, they eliminated the post and posted that the account had been hacked. When District and campus directors realized that was not true, the whole account was disabled.

We sincerely apologize for re-sharing the wrong post. We had been trying to reply shortly with what we believed to be true information. In the long run, we are going to confirm such posts from different District accounts previous to re-sharing them.”

Rep. Patterson posted to Facebook on Aug. 26 that he’d met with the Frisco ISD superintendent to debate quite a lot of points, together with sexually express content material in colleges.

“Dr. Waldrip was kind and expressed concern over the same issues I’ve raised. I take him at his word and look forward to continuing the discussion with him and his team in the weeks and months to come,” Rep. Patterson said.