Policies
Media Release Policy
The Effingham County Board of Education uses Simbli for all School Board related documents, meetings and announcements. To access our Policy Manual, click on the Simbli link below and use the search feature to search for all policies adopted by the ECSD.
At the start of each school year, parents have the opportunity to determine whether or not a child’s name, likeness and/or classwork can be posted on the internet in either video or photographic form. This permission is done through Infinite Campus. This must be done within the first ten days of enrollment or the first ten days of the academic year, whichever is applicable to the child.
Publicity Releases & Web Publications
Effingham County Schools publicize students’ outstanding achievements and activities through various media. This may include, but is not limited to, honor roll lists, yearbooks, photographs and videos of classroom and/or extracurricular activities. In addition, exemplary student work, student pictures, and student’s first and last names may be published on school-sponsored websites. Parents, legal guardians, or eligible students must indicate in Infinite Campus that they do not wish to grant these permissions for their child. This must be done within the first ten days of enrollment or the first ten days of the academic year, whichever is applicable to the child.
Please note that you must take action if you do not want anything related to your child posted on the school or district website. You will need to go into Infinite Campus to change your child's permissions.
Acceptable Use Policy
Technology & Internet Use:
The Internet is available to students and school employees to increase the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. Our goal is to promote student achievement and facilitate communication in order to share resources in education, business, government, and science. Use of these resources is considered a privilege to which great responsibility is attached. To that end, the Board of Education has enacted a strict policy agreement governing acceptable use of the Internet and technology resources. The agreement is found in the link below. Parents wishing to prohibit their child's ability to access the Internet should provide notice in writing to the school.