Putnam Valley Computer Use Policy
The Putnam Valley School District employs computers as one way of enhancing its mission to teach the skills, knowledge, and behaviors students will need as successful and responsible adults in the community as a whole. The district's computers provide unequaled opportunities to explore and use a varied and exciting set of resources including computer programs, CDs, and the Internet. In order to make these resources available to everyone, the district expects, in return, that people who use the school's computers will do so in a way that is consistent with its educational mission. Specifically, we expect that, when using or accessing the school's computers:
- No person will deliberately or willfully cause damage to computer equipment or software or assist others in doing the same.
- No person will deliberately access educationally inappropriate materials or show others how to do the same. This is particularly important in light of the fact that the very strength of the Internet - its largely unregulated and unregulatable offering of thousands of different places to visit - means that some Internet sites contain sexually explicit or other material which is clearly unrelated to the school's educational mission.
- Each person will respect the rights of others to the privacy of the files they store on a computer or a disk and not view those files without the owner's permission or alter or damage such files.
- Each person will respect and uphold copyright laws.
- Each person will follow any other regulations posted in the computer lab or other room where computers are in use.
- Each person will follow the directions of the adult in charge of the computer lab or other room where computers are in use.
Permission to use the school's computers is dependent upon a student and his or her parent or guardian signing the form below. Signing the form shows that the student understands and will follow the school's computer rules. Failure to follow the rules may result in a student being denied the opportunity to use the district's computers.
I understand that by signing this form I acknowledge that I have read and will follow the school's computer use policy and that I will
- Not deliberately or willfully cause damage to computer equipment or software or assist others in doing the same.
- Not deliberately access educationally inappropriate materials or show others how to do the same.
- Respect the rights of others to the privacy of the files they store on a computer or a disk and not view those files without the owner's permission or alter or damage such files.
- Respect and uphold copyright laws.
- Follow any other regulations posted in the computer lab or other room where computers are in use.
- Follow the directions of the adult in charge of the computer lab or other room where computers are in use.
Student's Signature: _______________________ Date: _________________________
Student's Name: __________________________ Homeroom: _______ Grade: _____
I have read the school's computer use policy and understand that my child has agreed to follow its rules or face the possibility of being denied the opportunity to use the district's computers.
Parent's Signature: ________________________ Date: _________________________
Read more about use policies and censorship issues
- Acceptable use policies and articles about censorship issues from Armadillo -- The Texas Studies Gopher
- A Collection of Acceptable Use Policies (mostly college level)
- Child Safety on the Internet
- Cyberporn Debate
- The Internet Advocate
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