DR’s radio program P1 Morgen asked listeners on September 17, 2026 to describe the best and worst parts of the school platform Aula. A total of 72 people wrote in, days after three Moderaterne ministers called for the platform to be scrapped.
In its Thursday broadcast, P1 Morgen invited listeners to send text messages about Aula, the communication platform used between parents and staff in schools, SFO and daycare. DR reports that 72 people responded, among them many parents and teachers.
The messages arrived as the debate about Aula flared up again. According to DR, Moderaterne argues that Aula has pulled parents too far into the school’s engine room, and all the way into the classroom.
Jakob Engel-Schmidt, tax and growth minister for Moderaterne, took part in the same broadcast. He said parents have been invited so far into the classroom that children are being stripped of responsibility. Messages about homework or an extra large packed lunch could go directly via the children, he said.
Engel-Schmidt added that individual schools should be free to keep the platform if they feel strongly about it. Per DR, he said the decision should rest with each school leader.
Parent says the platform is not the problem
Trine Ring, an HR consultant with two children in folkeskole and one in nursery, also spoke on P1 Morgen. She said the real problem is the missing conversation about how Aula should be used. She has previously written a debate piece in Politiken thanking the platform.
Ring told the program that she has switched off Aula notifications for about a year. Her children’s schooling still works, she said, even though she does not check the platform daily.
As reported by TV2, three Moderaterne ministers are behind the proposal to abolish Aula. They are Social Minister Monika Rubin, Engel-Schmidt, and Education and Digitalisation Minister Christina Egelund. The ministers argue that the platform has turned into a kind of social media, driving excessive parental involvement in school life.
Ekstra Bladet also covered the proposal on September 16, 2026. The proposal follows other recent moves affecting daily school life, including the plan to ban mobile phones in schools.
Aula replaced the paper contact book that once traveled between school and home in children’s school bags. The platform was decided and planned as part of the 2014 folkeskole reform, and was rolled out in 2019, according to DR and Nordjyske.
DR notes that opinions among parents remain divided. The broadcaster published a selection of the listener messages alongside its article.
