Although the Acceptable Use Policy for secondary students in my school district is comprehensive and continues to be effective after four years, it is currently being revised, and all students will sign a new agreement upon returning to school next year. The new AUP will include information related to copyright, digital citizenship, and wireless networking.
Both the current student policy and teacher policy include information about Web 2.0 tools. Students must use them with the direction of a teacher, and teachers must secure parent/guardian permission for the use of some tools, especially those that involve the publishing of student work online.
AUP's are kept on file at the school level by one of the systems operators. This person then distributes a list of students who do and do not have an AUP on file. Accounts are locked and unlocked each school year. When student accounts have to be locked for disciplinary reasons, the sysop notifies the faculty. Accounts are also managed by the local sysops, but new accounts are created at the district level.
Most teachers check to see if students have AUP's on file before starting Internet research projects. Often, the student without an AUP will submit one at the beginning of the project so that s/he can participate. Most of the time students don't have an AUP because they keep forgetting to bring back a signed form, not because parents refuse access. If the student does not already have an AUP on file and does not submit one at the start of the project, that student is given an alternative assignment that can be completed with traditional print resources.
Here's the link to the AUP for secondary school students in Putnam County:
http://image.schoolspan.com/files/putnam/filestore/34X3RO35.pdf
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