Chapter 11. Following the Rules for Using the Computer

Schools use a great deal of care when students learn to use the computer. They have to keep the students safe while helping them to benefit from the wonderful access media provides. Teachers especially have understand the broad issues.
Students should be aware, when they are investigating sites approved by the school, that certain material can be used for school projects without permission. It is "public domain." Other material is copywrited but it can be used with permission if its for educational use. The majority however is personally owned and it is against the law to copy it and especially to sell it.
State Departments of Public Education have AUP policies to keep records preserved in computers untampered with and not erased.
If an operator directs his message to children, asks children to participate or asks them for information, he must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Act (COPPA). It states that the operator's requests must be clear and understandable, and that no child under 13 can agree to any contract without their parents' permission. The operator is not allowed to change the offer without making that clear.
At Cullasaja School, there is a poster on the door of the Computer Room, stating that if a student finds anything suspicious or unethical on a computer, they should tell a teacher right away. Such concern must be tolerated in the name of free speech.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized:

In the first, it is ridiculed.

In the second, it is opposed.

And in the third, it is regarded as self-evident."

-Arthur Schopenhauer