Had a friend come round tonight with their grandson, who had a laptop with him - he asked me to have a look at it and install Minecraft etc on it, so I start to do that.

I noticed that in Chrome, there were all these unusual bookmarks for a kids laptop, such as IRD, Bunnings, various email providers etc - the grandparents have their own PC and never use the kids one, so I knew it wasnt their bookmarks. Then I notice that Chrome is logged into a Google account. Bought up the account screen to find a womans name - queried the kid about it.

"Thats my teacher, she logs into everyones laptop with her account so we can share files through Google drive/Gmail"

My immediate reaction was "WTF" - so potentially theres 30 kids laptops (and maybe some Mum and Dads laptops) that now have this teachers Google account setup on their system. 

I am mortified to think that someone thinks doing this is fine for a bunch of 8-9 year olds - theres security issues, privacy issues and more. If this teacher was "dodgy" (99.9% sure they aren't :) )  then who knows what they could have been sharing etc to these kids.

My kids go to the same school,  but don't take computers/tablets at this point, and to be honest, after seeing this , I wont be letting them.

I'm hoping this is just a single (uneducated) teacher that hasnt thought things through and not a school wide method of sharing stuff.

Ill be taking it up with the school and see what their response is........

Or am I being paranoid/over protective ? :-p