[sandworm101]

Because your school ran its own IT. In today's north america schools this is contracted out, or at least covered by a multi-school or district team who never talk to actual children. Any kid finding a flaw is a threat to that contract or system. Administrators dont want to look foolish, or admit liability for a flawed system, so they go after the kid (Modern privacy laws make them fearful of admitting anything.) Remember too that there is a culture in NA of adults seeing teenagers as a threat. They are suspect the moment they get to school. Any deviation from a norm only confirms that perception.

[thomasfedb]

Our IT department each rotated through being the Helpdesk person who talked to kids all day. They ran our robotics club. If you were interested in mail servers, or LDAP, etc they'd invite you in to see the server room.

I suppose they felt they had a duty to teach us, just like the rest of the staff.