Ease of management and surveillance (most such tools marketed at schools are Windows only), first class integration into active directory for user and computer account management, hardware agnostic (rules out macos), and it’s already integrated into the IT team’s systems and processes so switching would be a major effort.

If you go to Bree these days you’ll find highly coordinated bands performing actual music. It’s really impressive.

This has been my favourite tech story for the past few years, I hope the train company gets put in its place properly this time.

Edit: This article is from July last year.