Triangle-area school districts have policies in place that address use of the Internet by students on school property -- but they say that parents should have the last word.

"Ultimately, parents and guardians of minors are responsible for setting and conveying the standards that their children should follow when using media and information sources," Orange County schools' student Internet access policy states.

Orange and Durham schools have a form that parents must sign before students can use the Internet.

Wake County revised its student Internet use policy last month to help safeguard against online predators. The new guidelines call for student anonymity to make it harder to get personal information about children.

Wake grants Web access automatically but has a form that parents may sign if they don't want their children to use the Internet at school.

Policies for Wake as well as Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools address cyberbullying as prohibited and unacceptable uses.

Wake schools prohibit "posting or publishing false or defamatory information about a person or organization; committing fraud; cyberstalking; cyberharassment; threatening another person; or intentionally engaging in communications for the purpose of abusing, annoying, threatening, terrifying, harassing, or embarrassing another person."

Orange schools bar online activity that "constitutes insulting or fighting words, the very expression of which injures or harasses others; or presents a clear and present likelihood that, either because of its content or the manner of distribution, it will cause a material and substantial disruption of the proper and orderly operation, discipline of the school or school activities, will cause the commission of unlawful acts or will cause the violation of lawful school regulations."

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