මෝඩ මාලිමා ජෙපි සමලිංගික ආණ්ඩුව ජාත්‍යන්තරේට! Sri Lanka probes curriculum error linking 11-year-olds to gay chat site: ‘show your kinky side’

monson · Jan 2, 2026

Education chief quits as police probe ‘Bad Boys Club’ link in 400,000 English text books – since recalled. Officials suspect sabotage, AI errors

Agence France-Presse

Published: 5:05pm, 2 Jan 2026

Sri Lanka launched a criminal investigation on Friday after a government syllabus for 11- and 12-year-olds directed pupils to a gay chat website to improve their language skills.

The Education Ministry lodged a formal complaint with police and launched an internal inquiry to establish how the blunder took place.

“We suspect sabotage,” Education Ministry Secretary Nalaka Kaluwewe said.

“We are in the process of implementing educational reforms, and this could be an attempt to stall them.”

The grade six English syllabus suggested pupils could find a pen-pal to improve their language skills via buddy.net – an online chat website titled the “Bad Boys Club”, which invites users to “show your kinky side”.

Homosexual activity is illegal in Sri Lanka, and the penalty for same-sex relations is up to 10 years in prison – although there have been very few prosecutions in recent years.

Red-faced authorities ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block access to the site on local internet providers.

The English syllabus directed students to a chat site called “Bad Boys Club”. Photo: buddy.net

Kaluwewe said the 165-page English syllabus had been vetted by three separate teams, including English professors, but none had detected the error.

Officials said the page containing the referral to the chat site had been removed from 400,000 copies of the syllabus before being sent to schools in time for the start of the next term on Monday.

There were also several spelling mistakes in the document, which its authors have admitted were prepared with the help of artificial intelligence platforms.

Efforts to decriminalise homosexuality have met with strong opposition from Sri Lanka’s conservative Buddhist and Catholic clergy.

The head of the National Institute of Education, which is responsible for the syllabus, Manjula Vithanapathirana, has stepped down pending the investigations.

- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...-year-olds-gay-chat-site-show-your-kinky-side

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Agence France-Presse

Published: 5:05pm, 2 Jan 2026

Sri Lanka launched a criminal investigation on Friday after a government syllabus for 11- and 12-year-olds directed pupils to a gay chat website to improve their language skills.

The Education Ministry lodged a formal complaint with police and launched an internal inquiry to establish how the blunder took place.

“We suspect sabotage,” Education Ministry Secretary Nalaka Kaluwewe said.

“We are in the process of implementing educational reforms, and this could be an attempt to stall them.”

The grade six English syllabus suggested pupils could find a pen-pal to improve their language skills via buddy.net – an online chat website titled the “Bad Boys Club”, which invites users to “show your kinky side”.

Homosexual activity is illegal in Sri Lanka, and the penalty for same-sex relations is up to 10 years in prison – although there have been very few prosecutions in recent years.

Red-faced authorities ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block access to the site on local internet providers.

The English syllabus directed students to a chat site called “Bad Boys Club”. Photo: buddy.net

Kaluwewe said the 165-page English syllabus had been vetted by three separate teams, including English professors, but none had detected the error.

Officials said the page containing the referral to the chat site had been removed from 400,000 copies of the syllabus before being sent to schools in time for the start of the next term on Monday.

There were also several spelling mistakes in the document, which its authors have admitted were prepared with the help of artificial intelligence platforms.

Efforts to decriminalise homosexuality have met with strong opposition from Sri Lanka’s conservative Buddhist and Catholic clergy.

The head of the National Institute of Education, which is responsible for the syllabus, Manjula Vithanapathirana, has stepped down pending the investigations.

- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...-year-olds-gay-chat-site-show-your-kinky-side

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Agence France-Presse​

Published: 5:05pm, 2 Jan 2026​

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Sri Lanka launched a criminal investigation on Friday after a government syllabus for 11- and 12-year-olds directed pupils to a gay chat website to improve their language skills.​

The Education Ministry lodged a formal complaint with police and launched an internal inquiry to establish how the blunder took place.​

​

“We suspect sabotage,” Education Ministry Secretary Nalaka Kaluwewe said.​

​

“We are in the process of implementing educational reforms, and this could be an attempt to stall them.”​

The grade six English syllabus suggested pupils could find a pen-pal to improve their language skills via buddy.net – an online chat website titled the “Bad Boys Club”, which invites users to “show your kinky side”.​

Homosexual activity is illegal in Sri Lanka, and the penalty for same-sex relations is up to 10 years in prison – although there have been very few prosecutions in recent years.​

​

Red-faced authorities ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block access to the site on local internet providers.​

​

The English syllabus directed students to a chat site called “Bad Boys Club”. Photo: buddy.net​

​

Kaluwewe said the 165-page English syllabus had been vetted by three separate teams, including English professors, but none had detected the error.​

​

Officials said the page containing the referral to the chat site had been removed from 400,000 copies of the syllabus before being sent to schools in time for the start of the next term on Monday.​

​

There were also several spelling mistakes in the document, which its authors have admitted were prepared with the help of artificial intelligence platforms.​

​

Efforts to decriminalise homosexuality have met with strong opposition from Sri Lanka’s conservative Buddhist and Catholic clergy.​

​

The head of the National Institute of Education, which is responsible for the syllabus, Manjula Vithanapathirana, has stepped down pending the investigations.​

​

- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...-year-olds-gay-chat-site-show-your-kinky-side​

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Agence France-Presse

Published: 5:05pm, 2 Jan 2026

Sri Lanka launched a criminal investigation on Friday after a government syllabus for 11- and 12-year-olds directed pupils to a gay chat website to improve their language skills.

The Education Ministry lodged a formal complaint with police and launched an internal inquiry to establish how the blunder took place.

“We suspect sabotage,” Education Ministry Secretary Nalaka Kaluwewe said.

“We are in the process of implementing educational reforms, and this could be an attempt to stall them.”

The grade six English syllabus suggested pupils could find a pen-pal to improve their language skills via buddy.net – an online chat website titled the “Bad Boys Club”, which invites users to “show your kinky side”.

Homosexual activity is illegal in Sri Lanka, and the penalty for same-sex relations is up to 10 years in prison – although there have been very few prosecutions in recent years.

Red-faced authorities ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block access to the site on local internet providers.

The English syllabus directed students to a chat site called “Bad Boys Club”. Photo: buddy.net

Kaluwewe said the 165-page English syllabus had been vetted by three separate teams, including English professors, but none had detected the error.

Officials said the page containing the referral to the chat site had been removed from 400,000 copies of the syllabus before being sent to schools in time for the start of the next term on Monday.

There were also several spelling mistakes in the document, which its authors have admitted were prepared with the help of artificial intelligence platforms.

Efforts to decriminalise homosexuality have met with strong opposition from Sri Lanka’s conservative Buddhist and Catholic clergy.

The head of the National Institute of Education, which is responsible for the syllabus, Manjula Vithanapathirana, has stepped down pending the investigations.

- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...-year-olds-gay-chat-site-show-your-kinky-side