Hello!

A new question has arisen at my middle school and I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with this. A reading teacher, who has many students doing their independent reading on e-readers, asked to see what the kids were reading. (7th graders.) Several of them had free books they downloaded from WattPad which are basically variations of 50 Shades of Gray . . . The reading teacher was appalled. There is no language in our BYOD policy that refers to content. It does say in our district technology guidelines that student should use their own accounts for educational purposes only. 

Here is an example of one. Warning: Explicit Language and Sexual scenes.
http://www.wattpad.com/968515-dead-and-not-buried-i%27m-dead-and-hes-a-jerk-the


Thanks, in advance, for any advice or feedback.

Shannon


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Shannon McNeice
Library Media Specialist, Sedgwick M.S.

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