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I didn't know that there are special accounts, I assumed they are reusing their own.

If it is like a corporate accounts in other places then yes, no need to worry about blocking the account.

They don't use their personal accounts. Accounts are managed for students in much the same way as the would be for a business hosted with Google Apps - https://edu.google.com/

Unless they buy a Chromebook at home.

You understand you can log in with your student account, right?

Yep. While you're still a student. Or with your personal account.

Or without an account at all.

As a paperweight.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1057090?hl=en

But your complaint is still valid in the larger sense that you don't want to allow Google to have any say in the matter.

What we need is for Google's school/office apps and their storage to become open-source commodities that are self-hosted. "Self-hosted" can then involve any balance of self/outsource you or your organization would like.

That's what standards are for. If all your storage is based on a shared standard, anyone can implement a replacement for a given unit of data. Unfortunately, standards are not cool these days, because they make vendor lock in difficult to achieve.

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