Online pharmacy selling Viagra takes over link to Lincoln Park elementary school website

Instead of remote learning guidance, the latest school announcements and registration details for next year, parents looking for their Lincoln Park elementary school’s website are being redirected to another webpage: one that sells Viagra.

The website for Oscar Mayer Magnet, one of the city’s top-rated elementary schools, appeared to be having problems for most of the day Monday as school leaders worked to fix the issue.

The first result in a Google search for “Oscar Mayer Magnet School” was a link to the school webpage. But once that link was clicked, a page advertising an “online pharmacy” was displayed.

The page is part of a website that sells all sorts of brand name and generic medication, including generic Viagra for 35 cents a pill and “super active” Viagra for $1.35, but has no information about Mayer Magnet School. Parents’ only hope to get to the school website appeared to be navigating to Chicago Public Schools’ informational page for Mayer, then clicking on the website link there.

The school website was back up and working on some devices by early evening.

Asked about the website troubles, the vice-chair of Mayer’s Local School Council said, ‘‘We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it.” A spokesman for Chicago Public Schools didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Mayer offers top educational programs, including Montessori from preschool through fourth grade and International Baccalaureate from sixth through eighth grades.