Could be that there is a law against storing data outside of the EU that might pertain to your school situation, so you might have a right violated. Though fighting that is quite a bit of work. You’d want to escalate things with your school first, but in order to do so be knowledgeable on the issue which requires a big time investment and in the end if your school doesn’t care they are probably gonna bet on you not seeking legal recourse. Which is such a ginormous amount of work they could be right depending on the resources you have.
That’s not to say its a battle not worth having, but its quite the battle if the school doesn’t care, because they can just stonewall and its up to you to overcome it.
As an alternative I unfortunately don’t know of any except a self hosted moodle solution which is a hefty amount of work for the school and might be reason enough for them to deflect or stonewall on the issue. So I wouldn’t go into that with them, let them do their own research on alternatives maybe they can come up with something since they have different resources and connections than you do.
The opposite, I can at a glance tell how much time has passed and how much time I have left in a very visual way. The hands are a much easier way to interpret passage of time than some digits. And like the OP points out, it doesnt really matter if its 6:00 or 6:05, but I can see how much I’ve already procrastinated and how much I have left to do The Thing.
I’m genuinely suggesting this, it has made a difference for me.
Why not? It makes sense to me, it carried me through some very difficult times and is a good way to think about how I interact with the world and my moral framework.
If I remember correctly the idea was to not consume books “uncritically”. Whereas the globglogabgalab is just devouring books without examining what thoughts he is ingesting.
Also he has a navel and there are unfortunate implications to that.