Malmö Schools Block Tiktok and Social Media on Student Computers

In Malmö, Tiktok, Snapchat and other social media platforms are blocked on the school computers of elementary school students.

» Published: September 02 2025 at 11:05

Malmö Schools Block Tiktok and Social Media on Student Computers
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Special education teacher Sarah Cedervall launched the idea to Malmö's school municipal councilor in December last year and the block is introduced on a trial basis to be evaluated next summer.

It had come up at many work team meetings – that we are constantly chasing students who are using social media during lessons and telling them to shut down the computer and focus on the work, she says to Sydsvenskan.

Since students are no longer allowed to use their mobile phones during the school day, many have instead used the school computer to access social media, even during lesson time.

The National Agency for Education is aware that such blocking in students' school computers occurs, but statistics on how common it is are lacking, reports DN.

School municipal councilor Sara Wettergren (The Liberals) sees it as a statement from the political side.

To show that student computers are a work tool and not something you use for entertainment. Then the guardians get to decide what the children do after school on their private mobile phones, she says to the newspaper.

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