Parents divided as Moderates call for Aula to be scrapped
Thursday 17th September 2026 on 19:01 in
Denmark
Denmark’s Moderates party wants to abolish Aula, the communication platform used by schools, after-school programmes and day-care services, but parents are divided over the proposal, DR reported.
The party has called Aula a “tumour in the family” and said the volume of communication has become excessive. It argues that parents have been brought too far into the school’s internal workings and even into the classroom.
DR’s P1 Morgen asked listeners to send text messages describing their best and worst experiences with Aula. A total of 72 people responded, including parents and teachers.
Aula replaced the traditional contact book in 2019. The book travelled between school and home in children’s schoolbags, allowing teachers and parents to write messages to each other. The change was decided and planned as part of the criticised public school reform from 2014.
Trine Ring, an HR consultant and mother of two children in public school and one in a nursery, said Aula itself was not the problem. She previously thanked the platform in an opinion article in the newspaper Politiken.
“The real problem is that we are not having a conversation about how we should use it,” Ring told P1 Morgen.
Ring said she had switched off Aula notifications for about a year, which had worked well for her. She encouraged other parents to do the same.
“My children’s schooling still hangs together even though I do not receive notifications or check it daily,” she said.
Jakob Engel-Schmidt, the Moderates’ tax and growth minister, said children should take more responsibility for information such as homework or reminders to bring an extra-large packed lunch on a trip.
“We have invited parents so far into the classroom that we deprive our children of their independence,” he told P1 Morgen.
The Moderates want to close Aula, but schools that strongly support it should be allowed to continue using the platform, Engel-Schmidt said.
“It should be up to the individual school principal,” he said.