What a bunch of pricks!!! Even with the school laptops, nothing is going to stop knoppix or another boot CD from being able to take out the network at classroom range.
Fortunately I live in a smallish town, and we have a great IT department, its just that the most computer savvy students (me) can always find a workaround, and by the time the average noob finds out about it, its blocked up.
I happen to be freinds with the district administrator, after job shadowing him for a day, which is kind of a good way to pentest the network without getting in trouble. I get thanks more often than not,
Our district has almost all Mac computers, which are great for schoolwork, and run UNIX, so hey I'm not complaining. On day I get the bright idea to old <apple><s> on startup. Whuddayaknow?
I get into sigle user mode, or unix command line, and basicly have the power to do anything.
I tell my administrato, and he says that it is unlocked because its a pain in the ass to fix something when it breaks if you disable single user mode. Since nobody in the district knows jack shit about unix, besides myself and the admin, there isnt really a problem there.
[end of pointless story]