Class description and rules for this term:

In order to ensure that every student has the best opportunity to learn and intellectually grow in computer class you will be required to adhere to following rule set:

1. Stay in the area to which you have been given access or rights (e.g. folders, directories, account) at all times. Your account should contain material created only by you for work being done for school projects only.

2. Do not bring to school any computer storage device, software files, program, or application without prior permission from your computer teacher. Unauthorized storage devices will be confiscated from student and turned in to the Dean’s office, and only returned to your parent(s) at school.

3. Defacing or alteration of hardware or software is not allowed (e.g. switching keys on keyboard, moving keyboards, re-positioning wires, changing icons, changing backgrounds, changing screen savers, changing or adding software/files, etc.)

4. Students may have access to the Internet for the purposes of research and collaborative work only. It is illegal to distribute information which violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person; which distributes any defamatory, inappropriate, abusive, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, racially offensive, illegal material, advertisements, solicitations, political lobbying, or any information which encourages the use of controlled substances; or, which uses the system for the purpose of inciting crime. Students may not seek information in relation to any of the above or any other unlawful activity using school computer systems. Furthermore, you are not permitted to access any Internet web sites that are not related to the class assignment you are working on. You are not permitted to look for music, use “dashboard,” or any other program that is not a part of the class assignment.

5. It is not permissible to engage in chat rooms or attempt to access anything that is not approved by the teacher. Playing Internet games are only permitted with the teacher’s approval/authorization and they shall only be educationally relevant.

Please note all of the above also constitute a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy “AUP.”

In addition to the above rule set, if during the course of class you decide to do anything that is not a part of our class routine, be disruptive, or you refuse to be a positive part of the sanctity of our class you will be immediately removed from the computer for any length of time up to and including the remainder of the semester. Your daily agenda clearly spells out what is deemed appropriate and you are expected to write and follow this agenda every day.


Penalties for any of the above listed items could include one or more of the following:

1) Removal from computer systems in a specific room/lab or entire school.
2) Possible grade of F in class and/or Unsatisfactory in cooperation.
3) Campus Beautification or other disciplinary action (i.e. detention, phone call to parents, letter to parents)
4) Possible removal from class.
5) If possible suspension from school
6) Parents and/or guardian will be held responsible for the damaged parts and/or labor to fix them
7) If necessary referral to the school police.

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