Turned it into a private one controlled by department heads

Private schools close “WhatsApp” groups in front of students’ families for “misusing them”

After closing the groups, the students' families created special groups for each stage of study to benefit from each other.

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Private schools in the Northern Emirates closed “WhatsApp” groups suddenly in front of students’ families, and made them private, controlled by department heads to send messages, school decisions and circulars, after they were misused by students’ families, and turned them into groups for personal communication, sending private messages and congratulations annoyingly. .

In detail, private school administrations reported that they closed “WhatsApp” groups, and activated the feature of sending messages exclusively with the hands of department heads, and not others, to enable them to send administrative decisions, weekly study schedules, exam schedules, circulars, and instructions to the students’ families who are in the groups at each school stage.

She explained that these groups were created by the heads of the academic stages since the beginning of the current academic year, to facilitate collective communication with the students’ families, but they were misused, and turned into groups for acquaintance and congratulations and publishing notes on school procedures, in addition to sending morning messages, which violated as.

She added that the students’ families expressed their annoyance at the misuse of these groups by their other colleagues, and the inability of their supervisors to limit the sending of non-purposeful messages, and the conversion of groups from private to education to public, and accordingly it was decided to activate groups from public to private, and to specify the feature of sending messages. It is in the hands of its supervisors, and other means of communication with the supervisors and school administration have been identified, through e-mail, or through direct communication with the school administration.

For their part, the families of the students, Obaid Salem, Samir Wehbe, Nawal Al-Khadra, and Hanan Ghabin, indicated that the closure of these private schools made it difficult to communicate with the heads of departments, and inquire about educational matters, and what is related to the assignments and exams of their students, as most of the questions and observations It is collective, and the response to it by the supervisors benefits all the students’ families in the groups.

They added that the group supervisors could have deleted any parent from the group who did not comply with the instructions for which it was established, or banned him temporarily, but converting the groups to private schools made it difficult for the students’ families to get answers to their observations after the end of school hours, as it is forbidden to Students’ families contact teachers by phone, and that communication takes place via e-mail, and it is difficult to obtain a response from teachers outside school hours, so the idea of ​​general groups is easy to communicate with teachers, and obtain the required inquiries about homework and projects, or regarding review papers and exams.

And they explained that after closing the groups, the students’ families created special groups for each academic stage to benefit from each other, and to obtain work papers from the students’ mothers, in the event that they did not reach them via e-mail to some of the students’ families. Difficult answers are also circulated in the work papers that come from outside the curricula, and discuss the problems and observations that their children face in the classroom in order to refer them to the school administration through one of the students’ families.

Students:

Group administrators can delete any parent from the group who does not abide by the instructions for which it was created.

School administrations:

"These groups were created to facilitate communication, but they were converted into groups for acquaintance and congratulations."

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