I used to work in school IT and had products pitched to us constantly that would be basically malware/RATs to spy on students. We could purchase anything that w

I used to work in school IT and had products pitched to us constantly that would be basically malware/RATs to spy on students. We could purchase anything that would help us look at Facebook messages, emails, documents/picture, anything really. Our department went against it for a few reasons: - If you have this knowledge you need to monitor it. If a student is writing about killing themselves in a document on their machine then they follow through and we had access to that knowledge it becomes our problem. - Opens us up to far more knowledge than we had before, knowledge we didn't necessarily want. Kids are kids. We're trying to make adults and should give them a certain amount of free reign to learn and make mistakes without us watching them all the time. - Our IT department just didn't feel that it was the best idea and agreed with it on moral/ethic grounds. EDIT: I should also clarify that all of these tools went beyond what we would need to administer devices from an IT standpoint. Our other tools were more stop a malicious PDF than read little Johnny's email.