HExercises, absenteeism, preparation for exams or class celebrations: What was previously laboriously communicated by telephone chain or class letter is now organized via the Facebook Group’s news app. “I claim that there is no longer a class in secondary schools that has not joined together in one or more WhatsApp groups,” says Hans-Peter Meidinger, President of the German Teachers’ Association. The same applies to parents and teachers.
But do parents and students who don’t want to use WhatsApp simply have to put up with it? Is even the school powerless against the digital dominance of such chat programs? WELT research only allows one answer.
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