The telecommunications network of the Jackson County School Board, provides an exciting opportunity to expand learning for students, parents, and educators. Schools in the district have the capacity to connect to the internet. However, with this opportunity comes the responsibility for appropriate use. The fundamental goal of the network is to provide jackson county students and educators with equal access to computing resources which serve public education. The internet serves as an electronic highway connecting thousands of computers all over the world and millions of individual subscribers. Students, teachers, and administrators have access to the followingresources. Worldwide electronic mail services, global information and news, as well as the opportunity to correspond with other institutions, public domain and shareware computers software of all types, discussion groups on a plethora of topics ranging from Chinese cultures, to the environment, to music, to politics. Because class, race, ability, and disability are removed as communication factors or barriers, the Internet is a natural tool for addressing the needs of all students. With access to computers and people all over the world, also comes the availability of material that may not be considered to be of educational value in the context of school setting. There may be some material, individual contacts or communications which are not suitable for school-aged children. On a global network, it is impossible to control all internet materials. Furthermore, a curious user may discover inappropriate information. At school, each student’s access to use of the network will be under the teacher’s direction and monitored as regular instructional activity. The jackson county board has legal right to monitor its networks and systems on a frequent basis to ensure compliance with this policy. For security and network maintenance purposes, authorized individuals within Jackson County School Board can monitor equipment, systems and network traffic on an ongoing basis. Under no circumstances is anyone authorized to engage in any illegal activity under local, state, federal, or international law while utilizing the Jackson County School Board owned resources. Violations of the rights of any person or company protected by copyright, trade secret, patent, or other intellectual property, or similar laws or regulations, including, but limited to, the installation or distribution of pirated or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by the Jackson County School Board. Introduction of malicious program into the network or server like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and e-mail bombs are also unlawful. Posting, accessing, downloading, storing, or printing materials that are considered obscene or inappropriate for educational purpose or which may be offensive to another will not be toleratedd. Furthermore, any form of harassment via email, telephone, tablet, or paging, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages will be considered a violation of the Acceptable Use Policies of the Jackson County School Board.