[Informatics] please explain

Fri Feb 17 13:51:51 AEDT 2017

We should also spare a thought for Penny...

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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Gregory, Eleanor
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2017 12:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [Informatics] please explain

Obviously this was not meant to go up on the list. I am sorry.

I also need to apologise for the diagram on page 147. 

Thankyou for bringing this issue to my attention. I have requested an urgent reprint correction to have this changed. 
I apologise profusely that this has gotten through our usually rigorous vetting processes.

This is one of those days I should have just stayed in be.

Eleanor Gregory
Senior Publishing Editor, Secondary Science Cengage Level 7/80 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205 Australia Tel +61 3 9685 4181 | Mob 0418 996 484 eleanor.gregory at cengage.com cengage.com.au 

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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Gregory, Eleanor
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 9:41 AM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List <informatics at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Informatics] please explain

Bloody hell! Some of Mark Kelly has snuck through!

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> On 16 Feb 2017, at 12:56 pm, Vear, Gary D <vear.gary.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This morning during my Informatics lesson I heard some unexpected giggling at the back of the classroom and saw some of my students passing around the textbook. When I tried to identify what was so funny about the page they were looking at, my students remained coy at first but finally told me to look at the hierarchy on the bottom of page 147. I scanned it for a minute or so but couldn't figure out what was so amusing to them.
> 
> In the end, my students explained that 'Penny' (the name of the woman used in the example) is shown to have a well-organised porn collection. Hentai, they explained, is a form of Japanese cartoon porn. At first I thought they were joking, but their strong resistance to my suggestion that I would google the term made me think otherwise. So at lunch I used my mobile data (off the school network and in the privacy of my office) to research the term and discovered that my students were indeed not kidding. A rough translation of 'hentai' is 'pervert' according to Wikipedia. The accompanying images probably would have been enough to get me fired if I'd been foolish enough to look up the term in front of a room full of students.
> 
> I don't consider myself a prude, but I do not believe a school textbook should be making such references under any circumstances, particularly when it could lead to some blissfully ignorant teachers searching for a term under the wrong circumstances that could end in their dismissal. 
> 
> Hopefully others read this as a warning. Hopefully future versions of the textbook can avoid references to porn as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 
> Digital Technologies Leader
> Emerald Secondary College
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