Adri wrote: Well, for a head of school to encourage teachers to use WhatsApp with students and parents is beyond me…
GDPR, right to disconnect are not empty words.
And the guilt of teachers who do not do everything necessary for disconnected students or families, not comfortable with Pronote, frankly.If the tool is practical, at least the institution should provide a professional number – a second SIM – that can be cut. And again.
And as already said, in the event of a problem, it will fall on the teacher anyway, no matter how dedicated he or she may want to be.
I’m not instigating anything at all, I’m saying that there are places where this is done, and that there may be good reasons for it. Students who are too smart to use messaging, illiterate families who cannot help them, this is not the majority, but sometimes it is an entire establishment.
@Prezbo
Spend a week in SEGPA, you will see that there are very different ways of experiencing digital. For example, scholarship files, if we do not hold hands with families, either with management, or with a few parents of students in a network, the requests are simply not made, because dematerialization is too complicated for an incredible number of people.
yranoh wrote: I am very surprised to learn that school principals do not have work phones. It shocks me, to be honest.
It’s not automatic. You can always get a subscription paid by the establishment but personally I have no desire to go to CA, nor to juggle two sims, even if there would be a certain logic for external interlocutors to what the number is linked to the position and not to the person.
Conclusion after which I will no longer intervene: if you are in establishments where daily life and the relationship with digital technology are more or less normal, use the professional tools, they are very convenient (well when they work, yes I am talking about you l ‘ENT Ile de France). If you are with a public who is too difficult to use it, you must consider alternatives: Whatsapp groups, with all the reservations that can be expressed, are one of them.
