In fact today they edited the settings so if a student account plugs in a flash drive it doesn't read it
I had to have a teacher move the files to a network-accessible folder so I could use them. The network here doesn't let you do much of anything except search the internet, and download [some] .pdf files. We have 2 laptop sets with less than 256mb of memory (judging by their speed) and several dozen desktops with ~ 512mb. Each has little harddrive (just enough for windows and the novell client) and uses the school's giant server with segmented drives, 25MB for each student and about 50-75mb for each teacher.
There are rules that appear on the desktop of each networked PC that are extremely explicit, and it includes: No downloading anything, No installing Anything, no going outside of your student drive, etc...and a new one- No Student-owned flash drives or CD's are to be inserted into networked PC's. Makes it rather hard to turn in a digital project done at home, such as my German class final exam report in the form of a presentations x3 slideshow...
On the other hand, we have several dozen multi-thousand-dollar PolyVision SmartBoard systems, yet we have stupid-ass rules and cheapo computers?
There's so much wrong with my school...I could go on for hours. Hey, let's go offtopic again and gripe about our school/work conditions
I have one more-This is 100% true I swear I didn't make this up..it's too crazy to make up.
A group of friends and I recently uncovered a teacher conspiracy, it seems that many of the teachers at our school are cheating on their spouses with other teachers here. After our suspicions were raised by a simple rumor, a teachers aid gave us a timeline of one teacher's..shall we say, shenanigans, and alluded to many other such occurances.