Im endlessly glad that my high school was extremely tolerant of us exploring the system and messing with things as long as we didn't try to cause harm (eg, dele

Im endlessly glad that my high school was extremely tolerant of us exploring the system and messing with things as long as we didn't try to cause harm (eg, deleting one file is okay, trashing a whole network drive is not) and reported what we found to the school IT manager. Most of us ended up as techs for the school and district as a student job. Several of those students went on to be whitehats. (Who knows where careers would've gone if they'd been discouraged and come to view the system as the enemy.) They also were way cooler than they had to be about the several times we took down the network or broke the porn filters, or the time we port-scanned a district tech's machine, or had a whole collection of malware on the network drive, or.... I just worry about how students like me would fare in schools these days.