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I’m not sure this policy does anything but make the admins feel better.

Nah, I'm just imagining the stickler teachers being like, "A game? Fun? In school? That must NOT be allowed!" And being satisfied when it's removed.

A much better (and mature) approach would be to ask google to turn the game into something educational.

Nothing is better for education than pupils thinking they are gaming when they are really learning useful stuff.

Or you could just let them play a damn game.

I'm old enough to remember having an absolute blast playing Number Munchers off a floppy disk on a DOS computer.

I know a teacher who regularly sent in help desk tickets of the form "site X has a game on it, so please block it at the firewall".