Christ The King Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center web site provides a dynamic forum to communicate with students, parents, prospective parents, employees, prospective employees, and the community at large.  The web site will publicize the goals, accomplishments, activities and services of Christ The King Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center.  All content contained on the web site is consistent with the educational aims of Christ The King Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center (CTK School and ECC).

Student Safeguards

1.   The name of a student will not be published in conjunction with a picture of that student on the CTK Lutheran School and ECC web site. Likewise, personal information about students will not be published.

2.   Student work may be published on the CTK Lutheran School and ECC web site under the following guidelines:

·     Grades K-8 - Authors of electronically published work may be identified only by first name. CTK may choose to let students adopt “net names”.

·     All student work published must pertain to a class project, course, or other school-related activity.

3.   Web page documentation may not include any information which indicates the physical location of a student at a given time.

4.   No student e-mail addresses should be given on the web site.

5.   Filenames for web pages and images should be checked to ensure that students’ names do not appear in the name. (e.g., johndoe.gif)

6.      Personal web pages for students are not permitted as part of the CTK Lutheran School and ECC web site. Links to personal student web pages from CTK Lutheran School and ECC web site are likewise not permitted.

General Guidelines

1.   Web page publications must comply with all state, federal, and international laws   concerning copyright, intellectual property, and use of telecommunications.

2.   The content of school web pages must be consistent with the educational aims of the CTK Lutheran School and ECC Board of Christian Education and the letter and spirit of the CTK Lutheran School and ECC Board of Christian Education policies and regulations. All subject matter should relate to curriculum, instruction, school-authorized activities, general school-related information that is appropriate and of interest to others, or information that relates to schools within the Memphis district.

3.   All school web pages must reside on the CTK Lutheran School and Church web servers (http://www.ctkschool.com and http://www.ctk-lcms.org) unless an exception is granted by the Principal.

4.   It shall be the responsibility of the school principal to approve all content on the school’s web pages. Content should be updated on a regular basis with the revised date posted on the web site.

5.   All web pages should be free of spelling and grammatical errors.

6.   All external links included on web pages must be evaluated for appropriate educational content. The following disclaimer should appear on every web page that contains external links: “Christ The King Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center makes every effort to ensure that the content of hyperlinks on its Web pages complies with our guidelines for quality and appropriateness. Upon posting links to our Web site, contents of the existing links met those guidelines. We also conduct sample monitoring of links. However, the content of links sometimes changes without our knowledge. Please notify us should you discover links with inappropriate content, and we will take action accordingly.”

External links should be periodically checked to ensure validity and content.  Common courtesy, but not law, dictates that web masters of externally-linked sites be notified of use of such links.

7.   School web pages should not serve as community bulletin boards. A link to the city or community web page is suggested to reference community events.

Technical Standards

1.   The web pages should contain a link to the following contact information: school name, address, telephone number, principal’s name; an e-mail address for the principal and/or the principal’s designee; Early Childhood Center Director’s name and email address; date of last modification; an email address for the CTK School webmaster; and a link to Christ The King Lutheran Church.  A picture of the school should be included somewhere on the web site.

2.   In developing web pages, consideration should be given to loading time on a 14.4K modem connection. Large graphics and some animations contribute to increased loading time.

3.  Web pages should not contain links to unfinished pages.

4.  Pages should be structured for clarity, readability, and ease of navigation.

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