LAPTOP POLICIES

In addition, the school has an expectation in reference to a student’s hair. It must always be off the collar, not fall over the eyebrows at any time, and avoid extremes in style and colouring.

Laptop Policies

In addition to the Computer and Laptop Policies section in this handbook, please note the following specifics to Middle School:

• Students’ laptops are to be kept closed from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays) unless supervised by a teacher. Students may use their laptops for academic work and email during these times in the Rogers Hall classrooms, under the supervision of a faculty member, or in Towers Library. • Student laptop activity will be monitored by the school with the use of Qustudio, a control software program. • Please note that Macdonald House students will have expectations for computer use in their house explained by the boarding team.

Carrying Around a Laptop:

Special laptop backpacks and hard protective sleeves are provided to students to protect their laptops. Laptops must always be transported in their sleeves as these provide the best protection. Students are not permitted to bring their backpacks to class; backpacks must remain in their lockers during the academic school day.

Academic Use First:

Academic use of the laptops must always take priority over recreational use. Each student is given an administrator equivalent user account on their laptops. Students can lose this privilege after one computer strike.

Content Restrictions: Students are not allowed to have installed on their computers or to share or distribute files that offend community standards, break laws, compromise the school’s computer systems, or violate academic policies. Files may be in the form of executable, text, sound, image, or video. Here is a list of the sorts of files students should not have on their computers:

• pornography in the form of images, videos, or cartoons • music that offends community standards on issues such as swearing, promotion of drug use, treatment of women, or racism

First Infraction - meeting with the Director of Middle School and communication home to parents. Second Infraction - meeting with the Director of Middle School and parents. Third Infraction - meeting with the Director of Middle School and parents. The laptop is taken at the end of the evening after study and returned in the morning. Fourth Infraction - meeting with the Head of School and parents to determine status at the college.