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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Absolutely. Plus it’s a bad form of storage device, too many get lost, corrupted etc for them to be reliable for student use. Yes I know, god forbid these kids have to look after something. 

Source: Work as a school IT technician
gpt
But the USBs are sealed in the OPs boxes, so I don’t know if the virus argument is the decisive factor here. Modern students across the world mostly use cloud storage now anyway, but there are countries with 2000s PCs that would gladly accept this lot, haha