In trouble for having firefox?

The school district CCISD (Clear Creek Independent School District) in Texas, has started taking away technology privileges, a.k.a. all computer access, for students they catch with any executable file on their pen drive.

Today in school, myself and several other students had all of our technical privileges suspended for having executable files on the flash drives we used for school. These were our own pen drives, not the schools. In my case, I had firefox on my pen drive, along with some other files, like roms.

What is going on with the district? Did Microsoft suddenly purchase it? How is it that just because I happen to have firefox, and a GBA emulator on my pen drive, I suddenly get all my technical privileges revoked? I didn't use either for any malicious activity, it was only used as a better web browser. The emulator was only used for playing games.

The principle who was talking to us also obviously didn't have any idea what they were doing. They told us that with a certain program, we could, within twenty minutes, hack the district's protection on the internet, and grades as well. Is it just me, or is telling us that we could use that SPECIFIC program to do hack their security a major security infraction? What kind of idiot principle tells a large group of people who shes convinced are hackers about that?

Well, if that wasn't enough, she also said that we were only the first group of people she would be taking technical privileges from. Apparently, every single person who has ANY sort of .exe file on their pen drive, and has used it with a school computer, will also have their technology privileges revoked.

What the hell kind of district takes tax payer's money, buys computers for those students whose families are paying taxes, and then take the privileges to use those computers away just because of an executable on that student's pen drive? They didn't even go by the log file of programs run, just by whether or not they had an executable file on the pen drive?

Well, apparently Microsoft is controlling CCISD, considering the only programs we use are Microsoft office, and Internet Exploder, oh, I mean explorer.

Perhaps the district will revoke their ignorance.

-kaharis