This isn't true of all school districts. In the district I came from, IT passed down mandates makes things very difficult for teachers, so much so that a number of state provide tools could not be used in the classroom.
In addition to that, I know of a similar TRUE story. As a recent graduate of high school, we had a similar incident with a student in an advanced technology program. While being taught about dual booting a computer, the student decided he would install Linux and Firefox in an additional partition. Upon discovery by the teacher, he was told to un-install the software, and when he did not do it before class was dismissed, had the hard drive wiped and was forced to completely re-install Windows the next day. This happened two more times, and it ended up with him being kicked out of the program.
Of note would be that this program provided all sorts of Microsoft/Comptia certifications completely free, in my time there I aquired the following certifications: MCP, MCDST, MCSA, A+, Net+, and numerous microsoft office certifications.
Make the user profiles for each account read only, so that the students can't edit them. Then, deny the student accounts everything but read access to the Windows folder, so they can't make any other changes to the computer. Finally, use GPEDIT.msc and lock down the command prompt.
Short, and rather simple. It makes it so that the users can run any program they need to, but won't be able to make any real changes to the computer. Sure, they can delete programs, but keep an image of what the HDD should look like and and image it if anyone complains about stuff not working. Its not going to stop them from getting to flash games or anything, but no matter what you do, some crafty student is going to get around that.
I must now go into my parents basement and build a replica, then steal the neighbor's plants for "science experiments"
Of course, "staring at the sun" by offspring will be playing the entire time.
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This isn't true of all school districts. In the district I came from, IT passed down mandates makes things very difficult for teachers, so much so that a number of state provide tools could not be used in the classroom. In addition to that, I know of a similar TRUE story. As a recent graduate of high school, we had a similar incident with a student in an advanced technology program. While being taught about dual booting a computer, the student decided he would install Linux and Firefox in an additional partition. Upon discovery by the teacher, he was told to un-install the software, and when he did not do it before class was dismissed, had the hard drive wiped and was forced to completely re-install Windows the next day. This happened two more times, and it ended up with him being kicked out of the program. Of note would be that this program provided all sorts of Microsoft/Comptia certifications completely free, in my time there I aquired the following certifications: MCP, MCDST, MCSA, A+, Net+, and numerous microsoft office certifications.
Make the user profiles for each account read only, so that the students can't edit them. Then, deny the student accounts everything but read access to the Windows folder, so they can't make any other changes to the computer. Finally, use GPEDIT.msc and lock down the command prompt. Short, and rather simple. It makes it so that the users can run any program they need to, but won't be able to make any real changes to the computer. Sure, they can delete programs, but keep an image of what the HDD should look like and and image it if anyone complains about stuff not working. Its not going to stop them from getting to flash games or anything, but no matter what you do, some crafty student is going to get around that.
... And space hookers. You just can't forget the space hookers.
I must now go into my parents basement and build a replica, then steal the neighbor's plants for "science experiments" Of course, "staring at the sun" by offspring will be playing the entire time.