| GOAL
Our goal in making this website available is to help our students by
providing useful information to parents, staff, and other stakeholders.
Toward this end, the homepage of the website is intended for
announcements and recognitions of district-wide interest. Many of
the pictures that appear in the website are taken during the monthly
meetings of the Board of Education; each month the Board recognizes
students and staff who have achieved recognition beyond the district.
News stories of school activities and school recognitions are posted on
the websites maintained by each school.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
FOR DISTRICT AND SCHOOL WEBSITES
MCSD websites are best
viewed with Internet Explorer 6 or 7 with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or
higher.
To use certain features on the websites, you must have Javascript
enabled. You will
also miss some features if you do not have current versions of Flash and
a media player (such as Windows Media Player) installed on your
computer.
There are many pdf files on this website.
If you have a problem opening a pdf
file, you probably need to
update your version of Adobe Reader. Click the button to download the latest version of this free program.
(Adobe frequently updates Reader.) On
the Adobe website, be sure to select the operating system of your
computer before you download.
 We
also post some special-purpose files in Word and Excel.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Links to external
websites
are provided as research and learning tools. These sites are
maintained
by their individual hosts; the Muscogee County School District has no
responsibility
for the content of these sites and does not endorse ideas which may be
presented there or any products or services which may be advertised
there. Visitors should consult the
other sites' privacy policies as we have no control over information that is
submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
ADVERTISING
We do not post
advertising on this website. If you see a pop-up or pop-under
window with advertising or an advertising banner, you will know you are
not on the MCSD website. We are still in the process of moving
all school and department websites to the MCSD web-hosting server, but a few are still
posted on free web-hosting websites with advertising.
CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT
(CIPA) AND ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (AUP)
All computers on our WAN
(wide area network) are filtered according to federal guidelines under
N2H2 (CIPA and COPA). Students are required to have AUP forms signed
by parents on file in their schools before they can access the Internet.
Employees accept the
MCSD AUP as a condition of their employment.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Documents
officially published
by MCSD are sometimes reproduced in whole or in part on this website as
a service to our parents and staff. The official copy and version
is the one adopted by the Board of Education, and any differences which
may exist on this website as a result of human error or other cause are
unintentional.
WEBSITE
PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT - COLLECTION AND USE OF
INFORMATION
The Muscogee County School District recognizes the privacy
concerns of visitors to our website and the importance of protecting the privacy
of personally identifiable information. As a general policy, no personally
identifiable information, such as a visitor's name, address, email address,
credit card number, or telephone number, is collected on our website unless the
visitor chooses to provide that information to us.
We do not sell or share email lists or place “cookies” on a visitor’s computer.
For each visitor to our webpages, our server automatically recognizes the
domain, service provider, operating system, IP address, and Internet browser.
The server also records
the usage of pages (hits). This tracking system focuses on overall website
activity; it does not track information about individual visitors. We use this
data, in aggregate, for our research reports and performance surveys to
improve the content of our website.
Safeguards are in place to prevent
unauthorized attempts to upload or change website information or otherwise
access our website server.
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