And schools across Northeast
Ohio are warning parents
to watch your kids social media use
during this ongoing war. The concern is Hamas
circulating vi videos of hostages on platforms
like tiktok, Instagram
and youtube Shaker Heights. Schools asked parents to
monitor their children's
access to social media to protect
them from those images. Uh Beechwood schools went
further saying in a
letter to parents, Children should not view those
images and there is
no reliable
way to avoid being exposed
to them other than deleting your child's social
media accounts. Mandel Jewish Day School told
parents in
an email, these videos reportedly involve
hostages, pleading
for their lives as well as other horrific
displays of cruelty. These videos would be very
traumatic for young viewers. Solon city schools had a
similar message adding many of our families are
experiencing trauma
and fear and students may be struggling
with understanding terrorism
and the horror of this situation that has
unfolded over the
past few days. Now, many of these schools and
districts included links
offering support
to parents to know how they can talk to
their Children about
the violence. We've included those links in
our story on Wkyc
dot com. And I also talked to the group
that prompted many of these
schools to send out today's warning we'll hear
from them coming up in
the news
at six.