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Subscribe to RSSOops. Chicago Public School administrators were apologizing Thursday after a typo in a email to parents sent families to an erotic website.
The message was supposed to direct parents to the Illinois Board of Education website, at ISBE.net. Instead, an errant "L" in the Web address ushered visitors to a "private invite-only space for women over 18."
CPS spokeswoman Becky Carroll said the error was unintentional.
"As soon as it was brought to our attention we sent out a letter with a corrected link, and apologized for any inconvenience it may have cause," she said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The owner of the erotic site told the Sun-Times she did get some new sign-ups from the unexpected surge in traffic.
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How many people today are trying to figure out what where in the web address the 'L' belongs? :-)
(I can guess but....)
How many didn't bat an eye? Better yet...How many already knew?
Guilty
Now that was funny
I did, and it hardly qualifies as a "pr0n" site.
One way to get parents more involved in their students homework.
I saw that in the article, that was funny!
Time to start purchasing domain names that are typos (I know some already do this and without typos by changing the type, WhiteHouse.com versus WhiteHouse.Gov) so I can prosper by the "surge in signups" :-)
LOL. Honest mistake but funny, nonetheless. :)
Isbel It's not even a porn site. Why am I reading this crap? haha
People are messed up.
Steve: you shouldn't be so angry that they wouldn't let you into their "invite only" website.
Come on MSNBC! It's called English! Learn it!
Funny how the comment is about a typo...and it has a typo!
I thought the spelling/grammar wasn't so bad for an unpaid intern in Hyderabad working in the middle of the night.
i would seriously consider looking into just what this administrator does in his spare time.....typo...yeah...he might just be used to that link..
ponder it people. school district!!! children!!! teens!!!.....they all hang around children.
this is no mistake. this is sign . if you do not check this person out...i will hand you your sign.
protect children
dafuq?
Wow, really? Guess you never make typo's huh?
Oh btw, the first word in a sentence should be capitalized, that's called a typo......
Shall we investigate you now too?
Won't someone think of the children?!?!?!?!
::eyeroll::
Someone that says to protect the children from pornography is also that someone that refuses to tell children of reality and thus makes them ripe for being picked off by people who will be using their naivete against them and I can tell you numerous cases where this has happened, iamhis-heismine.
Take away all their computers, protect the children!!! [sarcasm]
New signups. Hilarious.
So, everybody wins.
Except the husbands.
Bob, you got that right!
Except the husbands?
They might get an erotic fantasy fulfilled.
They should have their erotic fantasies fulfilled by their wives if they have THAT many issues in the bedroom, Tom-1028326.
You must be really boring in bed, Truthteller. Nothing wrong with inviting some friends over.
...and based on your comment to Rob below, speaks volumes for being alone.
dafuq?
ISBEL.net
Amusing. Not much else to this news. Just... amusing.
"The owner of the erotic site told the Sun-Times she did get some new sign-ups from the unexpected surge in traffic."
The internet is for...PORN! lmao!!
TO Old for this $ H ! T.................................................................. :)
Will educated typo, only in Chicago, the city of dodging projectiles.
Ooops....
All Americans are druggys whores and liars anyway so this is nothing new!
Wow, you ARE really an ignorant, stereotypical, intolerant, elitist, arrogant jayckayuss, are you not, troiboi65? Tell me, what country do YOU live in that is SO much better than the USA? If you will tell me, then perhaps I could do something about your attitude? Maybe your fellow citizens will do the right thing about you for once?
A typo in this article too: In "any inconvenience it may have cause," the last word should be "CAUSED"!
I guess I have a different definition of what constitutes a "porn site".
Wow, that girl that you have in your avatar is hot, rob-carpenter. Sadly, she is not in my life yet...:(
That probably interested the Chicago parents more so than the usual dribble they get from the Illinois Board of Education.
So why aren't suspensions and firings in order yet - you'll suspend 5 year old for being the children they are ?
Suspension for saying I am going to shoot you - with my HELLO KITTY Bubble Blowing Gun ?
Adults Link you up with and are not suspended for: Dick Shoots Jane with his Secret Weapon ?
LOL!
If a student would have made such a mistake, many school administrators' "zero tolerance" policy toward such a thing would have required that they be suspended and have such an administrative action documented on their record--regardless of their excuse--to teach them, and the other students a lesson. Who will hold THESE people to such a ridiculous "zero tolerance" standard so that THEY can see what THEIR so-called "justice" feels like?
It doesn't really matter if they apologized. Who cares?! MANY times, students apologize for the mistakes they make, but are rigidly held accountable by these school administrators who insist that they MUST be suspended, in order to punish them and teach them some lesson--because of some asinine "zero-tolerance" policies. The standards should apply even to the adults--ESPECIALLY to the adults. They should be held to at LEAST the same standards the students are held to.
u mad bro?