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Greenwood Public School District will make on-line services accessible to legitimate users of the network and computer systems. Proper conduct is the responsibility of the user. Attempts to violate the Greenwood Public School’s policy will result in disciplinary action. The district shall establish and maintain a system to prevent computer users from accessing material harmful to minors on all public access computers. Greenwood Public schools will review its policy in a timely manner and will actively investigate network abuse.
1. Conditional Privilege: The Student’s use of the district’s access to the Internet is a privilege conditioned on the Student’s abiding to this agreement. No student may use the district’s access to the Internet unless the Student and his/her parent or guardian have read and signed this agreement. Student use of computers shall only be as directed or assigned by staff and teachers.
2. Acceptable Use: The Student agrees that he/she will use the District’s Internet access for educational purposes only. In using the Internet, the Student agrees to obey all federal and state laws and regulations. The Student also agree to abide by any Internet use rules instituted at the Student’s school or class, whether those rules are written or oral.
3. Penalties for Improper Use: If the Student violates this agreement and misuses the Internet, the Student shall be subject to disciplinary action. [Note: A.C.A. & 6-21-107 requires the district to have “…provisions for administration of punishment of students for violations of the policy with stiffer penalties for repeat offenders, and the same shall be incorporated into the district’s written student discipline policy.” You may choose to tailor your punishments to be appropriate to the school’s grade levels.]
4. “Misuse of the District’s access to the Internet” includes, but is not limited to, the following; a) using the Internet for other than educational purposes; b) gaining intentional access or maintaining access to materials which are “harmful to minors” as defined by Arkansas law; c) using the Internet for any illegal activity, including computer hacking and copyright or intellectual property law violations; d) making unauthorized copies of computer software; e) accessing “chat lines” unless authorized by the instructor for a class activity directly supervised by a staff member; f) using abusive or profane language in private messages on the system; or using the system to harass, insult, or verbally attack others; g) posting anonymous messages on the system; h) using encryption software; i) wasteful use of limited resources provided by the school including paper; j) causing congestion of the network through lengthy downloads of files; k) vandalizing data of another user; l) obtaining or sending information which could be used to make destructive devices such as guns, weapons, bombs, explosives, or fireworks; m) gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access to resources or files; n) identifying oneself with another person’s name or password or using an account or password of another user without proper authorization; o) invading the privacy of individuals; p) divulging personally identifying information about himself/herself or anyone else either on the Internet or in an email. Personally identifying information includes full names, address, and phone number; q) using the network for financial or commercial gain without district permission; r) theft or vandalism of data, equipment , or intellectual property; s) attempting to gain access or gaining access to student records, grades, or files; t) introducing a virus to, or otherwise improperly tampering with the system; u) degrading or disrupting equipment or system performance; v) creating a web page or associating a web page with the school or school district without proper authorization; w) providing access to the District’s Internet Access to unauthorized individuals; x) failing to obey school or classroom Internet use rules; or y) taking part in any activity related to Internet use which creates a clear and present danger of the substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the district or any of its schools. z) installing or downloading software on district computers with prior approval of technology director or his/her designee.
5. Liability for debts: Students and their cosigners shall be liable for any and all costs (debts) incurred through the student’s use of the computers or the Internet including penalties for copyright violations.
6. No Expectation of Privacy: The Student and parent/guardian signing below agree that if the Student uses the Internet through the District’s access, that the Student waives any right to privacy the Student may have for such use. The Student and the parent/guardian agree that the district may monitor the Student’s use of the District’s Internet Access and may also examine all system activities the Student participates in, including but not limited to email, voice, and video transmissions, to ensure proper use of the system. The District may share such transmissions with the Student’s parents/guardians.
7. No Guarantees: The District will make good faith efforts to protect children from improper or harmful matter which may be on the Internet. At the same time, the parent and Student recognize that the District makes no guarantees about preventing improper access to such materials on the part of the Student.
Date Adopted: May 13th, 2004 Last Revised: June 12th, 2008
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