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**Hunterdon Central Regional High School Student Network Resources Agreement**

 * Introduction**

Hunterdon Central is pleased to offer our students access to the district’s computer network resources. The school also offers electronic mail when required for class, project or club. To use these resources, students and their parents/guardians must sign and return the attached form. Please read this document carefully, review its contents with your student, sign where appropriate and return Page 2 to Hunterdon Central. Keep this page for your records. Any questions or concerns about this permission form or any aspect of the computer network should be referred to the school’s technology department.


 * General Network Use**

The network is provided for students to conduct research, complete assignments, publish their work, and communicate with others. Access to network services is given to students who agree to act in a considerate and responsible manner. Students are responsible for good behavior on school computer networks just as they are in a classroom or a school hallway. Access is a privilege - not a right. As such, general school rules for behavior and communications apply, and users must comply with district standards and honor the agreements they have signed (see Page 2). Beyond the clarification of such standards, the district is not responsible for restricting, monitoring or controlling the communications of individuals utilizing the network.

Network storage areas are similar to school lockers. Network administrators may review files and communications to maintain system integrity and ensure that the system is used responsibly. Users should not expect that files stored on district servers will always be private.


 * Internet / World Wide Web / E-mail Access**

Access to the Internet, and email when appropriate, will enable students to use thousands of libraries and databases. Within reason, freedom of speech and access to information will be honored. Families should be warned that some material accessible via the Internet might contain items that are illegal, defamatory, inaccurate or potentially offensive to some people. While our intent is to make Internet access available to further educational goals and objectives, students may find ways to access other materials as well. Filtering software is in use, but no filtering system is capable of blocking 100% of the inappropriate material available on the Internet. Hunterdon Central believes that the benefits to students from access to the Internet, in the form of information resources and opportunities for collaboration, exceed the disadvantages. Ultimately, parents and guardians of minors are responsible for setting and conveying the standards that their children should follow when using media and information sources.


 * Publishing to the World Wide Web**

Student work may be considered for publication on the World Wide Web, specifically on the school’s Website or a classroom Website. Such publishing requires additional parent/guardian permission (see Page 2). The work will appear with a copyright notice prohibiting the copying of such work without express written permission. In the event anyone requests such permission, those requests will be forwarded to the student’s parent/guardian.

Student Network/Internet Agreement**
 * Hunterdon Central Regional High School

Students are not permitted to:

• Use others’ passwords or share their passwords with others • Damage or modify computers, operating systems or computer networks • Send or display offensive messages or pictures • Use obscene language • Give personal information, such as complete name, phone number, address or photo, without permission from parent/guardian and teacher • Harass, insult or attack others • Violate copyright laws • Access others’ folders or files without express permission • Intentionally waste limited resources, such as paper • Employ the network for commercial purposes, financial gain, or fraud

Violations may result in a loss of access as well as other disciplinary or legal action.

//Last revised August 1, 2006//