TikTok Ban Also at Home: How a City Brings the Fifth Graders Offline

SOLINGEN. After the summer holidays in Solingen, a Germany-wide unique model experiment starts: All fifth graders do without social media – even at home. Schools, parents and psychologists pull together. But not all are convinced. Peng! (symbol photo) Photo: Shutterstock The project has a radical effect from the outside: From the 2025/26 school year onwards, no fifth grader should be allowed to use TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat in the North Rhin…