Dutch school bars parents from marks-sharing app in push to lower pupil stress

Experiment for a term prompted by research showing that sharing every result put added pressure on students

A secondary school in the Netherlands is blocking parental access to children's grades for a term in an attempt to reduce the pressure on pupils to perform.

Like many countries, the Netherlands has a system under which students need a certain grade average to progress to the next year, but Jordan - Montessori Lyceum Utrecht found that a widely-used app which shares every mark with parents was increasing stress among children.