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A female second-grade student in California, United States, accessed several adult pornography videos on her school-issued iPad, which her mother discovered. The local school district’s IT department subsequently reviewed the browser history of iPads across five elementary schools and found that several other students in the same classroom had also accessed inappropriate content. A district associate superintendent described the likely pathway as beginning with a YouTube search that led to unfiltered results. The mother has requested extensive IT training for school staff responsible for monitoring student device use.