I think same applies to most of the schools worldwide, the security senario is very disturbing they just do not seem to care about security. every thing is wide open. in our school lab all the games and teacher personal folder were stored in the network drive without even some one caring to at least password protect them any-body could map the network drive and play games from the games folder on the network drive. Anybody cought playing was punished but what was amusing was nobody cared to give security restrictions to it or remove it for god sake. i don't know what's the theory behind it , i guess they think if they play dumb then everybody else will play dumb too. Seriously my openion is money schools don't want to invest money on good network Admins, they don't think it's worth it.
You are lucky they didn't catch you playing the worms and gorillas games in NT4.0, or the flight simulator in excel 8.0............boy you would be in big trouble
I played that flight simulation in exel often, sue microsoft for that.