School's bizarre ploy to beat internet perverts - masking pupils with Acid House smileys

No, not the Onion, but the UK Daily Mail:

A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website – apparently to protect them from paedophiles.

Bizarrely, the images have been altered with the type of smiley faces popular during the Acid House dance craze of the 1980s.

The decision was taken at Cann Hall Primary School in Clacton, Essex.