A Article On Responsible Use Policy

[The educator] Shall not on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, marital status, political or religious beliefs, family, social or cultural background, or sexual orientation, unfairly:

This document supports limiting online student speech because the court ruled that even though it happened out of school, the school’s reason was strong enough to justify their actions toward K.K.

In modern society today, freedom of speech has been a main concern to delinquents as to what they say on the web. Although, cyberbullying has turned into a major issue online that has gotten the schools’ attention and turn towards the security of their students. To accomplish nurturing their students’ safety, they have punished pupils for what they say on the Internet that is harmful in account of others. Alternatively, the Constitution believes this goes against the First Amendment and violates the students’ rights. Schools should be authorized to limit students’ online speech to decrease the matter of cyberbullying which has affected us in many ways.

Purpose. The purpose of this Acceptable Use Policy is to provide guidelines which will be applied in determining acceptable use of this Web site, and to notify you of the terms of this service. As a user of this service, you agree to comply with this policy, the stated acceptable uses and the terms of service.

Students do not always realize that their free speech can go against certain limits that the Supreme Court has issued on this freedom. The US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights suggests that harassment creates a hostile environment when the conduct is sufficiently severe or persistent so as to interfere with or limit a students' ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the school. (Doc. G) In consonance with this, it is the school's responsibility to address harassment incidents to protect students' privacy rights. Allowing full access to the first amendment in schools can often result in the violation of the fourth amendment by infringing privacy rights. There are many forms of harassment that can violate students' civil rights. According to the same department, harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, or disability violates the civil rights laws that the OCR enforces. (Doc. G) Cyberbullying often falls into these categories which are all violations of civil rights, and many schools may not have proper standards for this violation. It is the school's responsibility to protect the civil rights of students, teachers, and administrators, so they must take a stand against discrimination, including online speech. Not only does cyberbullying contravene with civil rights, it also causes emotional

Students don’t have the same rights as adults do which means that students have limited rights.

Gregson, the vice principal at Northwest High School, accessed a video through his work computer of a transgender student’s locker being vandalized by members of the football team. (R. 18.) Gregson accessed the video using Principal Paul Fletcher’s username and password. (R. 18.) Gregson believed the player transgression was being covered up and he anonymously uploaded it on a social media website. (R. 18.) He then deleted the video from his computer and wiped his hard drive clean. (R. 18.) Returning

At High School One (a pseudonym) a rural 2A high school in Central Washington State. There are just over 1,000 students between 9th and 12th grade, with nearly 80% of the students identifying as white and just under 20% identifying as Hispanic. All students at High School One will be equipped with their own, school provided, Chromebook as part of the one-to-one implementation beginning with the 2016-17 school year. As this involves more than 1,000 students being connected to the internet for daily assignments, tests and score reporting, the ethical and legal issues of privacy are something teachers at High School One need to be aware of. In the 2016-17 school year, I will be teaching 152 students split between three sections of 10th grade World History and 11th grade U.S. History.

For all humans in America, we should all believe that our rights are greatly valued. I believe that the rights of students are valued just as much as human rights. More specifically, the right for student privacy should extremely supported. It seems that the Supreme Court made a choice does not agree with student rights. Nonetheless, the security of an understudy's school information has an extensive significance and are ensured by government and state directions. In the case that is review in the article, the or EPIC opposes the state of Wisconsin. They claimed that the regulations given by the government were simply not sufficient. They actually agreed the strength that the protection students had is now decreased due to the choices of the Supreme Court. This also motivated them to suggest that Wisconsin accept their new bill of rights which stood for student rights. It praised the privacy approach for students and information surety.

Ever since the first school shooting, a lot of people have changed their beliefs on this subject. I was in eighth grade when the shooting at Columbine High School took place. Before that shooting, I never would have considered something like that happening. Now, it is seventeen years later and school shootings almost seem like an everyday thing. That is sad, but it is true. This is why I believe a student should not have a high expectation of privacy while at school. The law used to be more lenient, but these circumstances have changed that. Right after Columbine, a lot of states had a zero tolerance law. According to the Center for Public Education site, this law said that if a student was caught with contraband they were given a strict punishment, no matter what the circumstance was. The laws have changed some over the last few years, and are not quite as strict as that. The schools still have to ensure that every student is safe, though. It is common for schools to have metal detectors or bring in dogs on a regular basis. Once they have a reason to suspect a student, they have the right to search their belongings. I believe this is well within their rights as administrators who are trying to protect the school as a whole. I realize that students may feel violated, I have been there. It was always an inconvenience to have to sit outside the hallways while the dogs searched each room. I never felt like it was wrong when they did find something though. So many students would bring large amounts of drugs, guns and knives to school. If it weren’t for the measures that the school took they would just be walking around with these items. I hope these laws never change, and my kids have the same protection that I did. I would hate to imagine my child going to school with guns and drugs within an arm’s reach. I believe the issue of student’s privacy is one that many people can agree with each other on.

Sophomore year of high school us students returned to school. We were all excited for class, and to use the technology that had been introduced in the years prior. I got into my first hour class and Mrs. Coster announced to the class, “Please go to schoology and open up the syllabus.” I opened up my chromebook and attempted to navigate to Schoology.com, but I did not have any success. I kept getting an error saying, “access denied due to education.” Having some knowledge about computers, I concluded that I was not logged into my lightspeed account. I turned to my friend and asked him, “Hey, do you know how we get our Lightspeed logins?” Matt replied, “Your username would be ‘l8vanvleet’ and your password would be your

Finally, students cannot take advantage of personal time with overly restrictive filters. Many filters work using categories such as ‘social’, ‘forums’, or ‘audio/video’. Interactive or social media websites are often blocked without considering educational use of some communal websites. For example, sites where students interact with each other and discuss novels are blocked, categorized as ‘forums’. Administrations must acknowledge that not every interactive site distracts students, and blocking them takes away technology’s full experience and the ways it allows students to

Access to the District Network is at the discretion of the District, and the District reserves the right to determine which uses are acceptable and unacceptable. The District may block, suspend, or terminate access or use at any time for: violation of this Agreement; actions that may lead to liability for the District disruptions or suspected violations of applicable laws or regulations. If a student has any doubt about whether a contemplated activity is acceptable or unacceptable, the student should consult a teacher, supervisor, or

Dictatorships and absolutist monarchies have used the same techniques of censorship to prevent their citizens from reaching information for centuries (Christiansen). Today, student administrators similarly prevent students from reading information, but instead of using censorship to hold their power, schools use this technique to maintain students’ innocence and create a wholesome, educational environment. School administrations have the power to ban books from school libraries or require students to have a signed permission form to read a book. Many parents and administrators feel as though this is an acceptable use of power because of the school’s duty to provide students with a safe and appropriate educational environment (McLaughlin). However, librarians, students, and proponents of free speech alike all believe that this censorship is a misuse of power in numerous ways. Advocacy for or against student rights is a debate that has raged for decades within school libraries, journalism classrooms, and English classes and has ultimately split into two belief systems: censorship is an acceptable part of schools, or schools must provide all available information to students. From a moral and practical standpoint, schools have an obligation to make books available because of the violation of student rights, the offensiveness of the challenges, and the dangers of limiting student learning.

Internet security and ethical use of technology in the classroom is vital to a student’s academic success. Internet security ensures that the technologies used in the classroom stay operationally problem free as well as keeps students safe from internet predators. Ethical guidelines ensure proper appropriate use of technology that does not violate school rules or laws put in place by the federal and state governments.