if you try using school computers for the internet you'd understand, my school blocks everything, including
Gmail
Hotmail
Yahoo Mail
Ebuddy (e.t.c)
Freewebspace.net
youtube
and the funny thing with the email is that they "encourage" students to sign up with an email account for stuff, would help if they didn't block it. lol
And the youtube thing, it also needs to be unblocked so people can get videos for Media and other lessons that require it. When things ae blocked you can get around the with a proxy but they are even starting to block all these proxy sites.
And if you just use the computer during lunch time occasionally you can't do ANYTHING because everything is blocked.
Wouldn't bloody surprise me if they blocked google.