Publishing House “Prosveshchenie” will replace free of charge all English Spotlight textbooks for grade 6, where a link to a porn site was found. This is reported by “Kommersant” with reference to the press service of the publishing house.
“A decision has been made to suspend the publication and distribution of the current printed version of the textbook. The Publishing House “Prosveshchenie” is taking all the necessary measures, and also made a decision to replace this version of the textbook, ”the publishing house said.
Earlier today, parents of children from St. Petersburg and the Krasnodar Territory discovered a link to a porn site in the Spotlight textbook. The Ministry of Education told TASS that they started checking on this, and also that they could withdraw expert opinions on the textbook. The department allowed the possibility of withdrawing the textbook.
As explained in the Ministry of Education, according to preliminary results, a picture with a link was printed in previous versions of the textbook, but from 2021, “the displayed site began to lead to prohibited inappropriate content.” The department said that the publishing house has already corrected the web-version of the textbook.
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