[pier25]

I worked at an ed tech company that provided services for schools and this was very common in my experience.

Schools wanted to store the students' passwords in clear text in an excel basically to get less complaints from parents.

Students didn't store their password after logging in. If they needed to log in again they did not know (or did not care) how to reset their passwords. Then the problem would fall unto the parents which would then complain to the school.