Porn accidentally plays in history class at Dearborn grade school

DEARBORN, Mich. (FOX 2) - A substitute teacher at a Dearborn school was trying to play a video of Lewis and Clark for history class, but instead pornography began playing.

Porn played for at least 30 seconds in front of a US history class full of seventh grade kids before the teacher was able to turn the computer off at O.L. Smith.

"They don't seem to care at all," said Christina Lentz, "The fact that this would be in a school is a problem."

It happened on March 13th when the substitute teacher mistakenly showed a lesson in something else. Dearborn Public Schools are blaming it on a technology glitch.

"In this particular instance it appears there was some sort type of loophole - one time too many - but very isolated," said David Mustonen, Dearborn schools communication director.

Mustonen showed a graph depicting how normally with he says, thousands of logins a day usually things kids shouldn't see don't get through.

"Are we looking into this particular instance are we making sure this doesn't happen again, yes, absolutely,” he said. "Do we need to scrap everything and start over? No, nowhere near that."

But how did the site even get pulled up? Was it a typo in a search, did the substitute pull it up? The district says no.

"The substitute teacher that was in the classroom was unaware that this video was there," he said.

FOX 2 asked Dearborn police if maybe it could have even been a student pranking the teacher when the sub wasn't looking. Police say there's no evidence of that. Dearborn schools agrees.

A letter went home with the 29 students in third hour U.S. history letting parents know about an "unfortunate and rare occurrence."

The district says support was made available for kids who needed it after witnessing the images.  The Dearborn police sergeant over school resource officers says from their perspective the investigation is closed and they found "no criminal intent."

As a precaution the district is not asking the substitute back because they can't confirm how the movie got there.