Midland School District #7 Internet Safety Policy

The Internet offers vast, diverse, and unique resources. The District’s goal in providing this service is to promote education excellence by facilitating resource sharing, innovation, and communication.   With this educational opportunity also comes responsibility.  With all the great educational opportunities the Internet has to offer also comes the reality that the Internet is used to provide information that is not appropriate for school age children.  So Internet filtering has a very high priority in our district.  Our St. Bernard filtering appliance, filters all Internet traffic coming into our buildings, and will not allow inappropriate material to pass through. 

Examples of inappropriate material filtered:

• pornography, web mail, chat rooms, online gambling, online auctions, the making of weapons, hacking, computer spyware and viruses, and software downloads.

In addition:

• It is also the policy of the District not to disclose student personal information on the District website.

• All students must have a signed Internet acceptable user policy on file before they are allowed to use the districts Internet resources.

• All high school students must have a Midland School District Internet License before they are allowed to use the districts Internet resources.

• High school students must display their Internet License at the computer station they are using to access the Internet.  (If a student does not have their license with them, they are not to be allowed to use the Internet)

• A member of the teaching staff must supervise students using the Internet.  (100% of the time)

• A student, who does not have a signed Internet acceptable user policy on file and or does not have their Internet License, cannot use or view the Internet.  (This means do not allow these students to view a screen of another student who is on the Internet)  Even though they are not physically controlling that computer they are still accessing the Internet.