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An Ottawa father is livid after his six-year-old son came home from school Friday claiming to have watched a pornographic video in class on a school-issued tablet.

Sean McLean, whose son is in Grade 1 at St. Marguerite d’Youville Catholic elementary school, said he picked his son up after school on Friday, Feb. 12, and was driving to a family dinner when his son “blurted out that a boy in his class had shown him a pornographic video.”

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According to McLean, the incident unfolded when a teacher handed out school-owned tablets and allowed students to “play and learn on them.”

McLean pressed his son further, asking if he had seen pictures or a video, and asked him to describe what he’d seen. The child described what McLean says was a sexual encounter involving two women.

McLean said he’s since spoken with the school principal and complained to the superintendent.

OCSB spokeswoman Mardi de Kemp says this is the first such incident she’s heard of in the board, and says board staff “take Internet safety seriously and teach digital citizenship at all grade levels.”