I don't know about the US... (Score 1)

But in Canada minors can't enter into a binding contact so any writen agreement between the school and a studnet of less then 18 years of age would not be valid, at least here in Canada but I'd bet it's the same in the US. This is to protect minors who might not fully understand what it means to sign a contract. If no harm was done then there's no need to punish them to harshly. My friends and I did stuff with our schools shitty computers and network all the time, but we were smart enough to use stolen teacher accounts (one teacher's password was her husbands first name and he was the schools VP). It was fun and we didn't break anything cause it wouldn't accomplish anything. We just wanted to play games and install pirate/free software to do the things we otherwise wouldn't have bee able to do. Glad I did it and so were some of our teachres. The only one who really cared was the library/IT/Retard guy and he just wasn't technically capable of doing anything so all you had to do was make sure he didn't physically see you doing anything at a computer. If my school were blocking websites I'd try and bypass it and I'm sure most /.ers would too. Givem a break.