Schools
The student who saw it
isn’t coming
to the staff room.
Every bullying case review ends up saying the same thing: other students knew. They knew for weeks. But coming forward meant crossing the classroom in full view of everyone to talk to a teacher — so the report finally arrives from an angry parent, after the worst has already happened. A tell.sg box lets the student who knows write it down today — no name required, and the school can still ask questions and say what changed.
The bystander is the reporter
Most of what a school needs to hear, some student already knows. The box exists for the bystander — the person with the most to tell you and the least reason to accept being seen telling it. And because honesty matters more here than anywhere: what this can’t do ↓
What stays quiet
Four things someone in your school already knows.
What classmates see
The exclusion, the shoving at the lockers, who eats alone and why. Visible to thirty children and no adult.
What happens in the group chat
The cruelty with no classroom to be seen from. It reaches a teacher only when someone shows their phone — with their name attached to the showing.
What staff won’t raise
A colleague’s conduct, a safety concern in the lab or on the bus — staff are senders too, with the same From-line problem as any workplace.
What parents swallow
Favouritism, a fee that doesn’t add up, a worry about a coach — unsaid, so their child doesn’t wear the complaint.
Anonymous doesn’t have to mean one-way
The bystander wrote. Nobody found out. It stopped.
This exchange is invented, for illustration. No real box, sender or school appears in it.
Someone in my class is getting picked on really badly in the group chat and now nobody will sit with her. I’m not saying my name because everyone will know it was me.
You did the right thing writing this, and you don’t need to give your name — nothing in this message tells me who you are. Two questions so I can act: which class, and is she in any danger right now?
2E. Not danger, but she was crying in the toilet yesterday.
An update, since you took the risk of writing: her form teacher has been watching since Tuesday, the students involved were spoken to separately — nobody was told a report came in — the seating has changed, and she’s met the counsellor. Please write again if it doesn’t stop, or if it moves somewhere we can’t see.
The bystander risked nothing, so the bystander wrote — three weeks before that report would otherwise have existed. And they were told what happened, which is what makes the second report ever get written.
How it runs in a school
In the student diary, not just on the noticeboard.
The address goes where a student can find it without being watched finding it: a page in the student handbook, the school portal, the back of the toilet cubicle notices, the parent newsletter footer. One box for students, another for parents and staff — labelled boxes mean the year head isn’t triaging a fee query, and reports arrive already sorted.
Who reads
Named seats for the people you’d trust with a disclosure: year heads, the counsellor, discipline master. Every reply is attributed to the seat that wrote it, and access is revoked individually when a role changes hands — no shared inbox, no forwarded email trail.
And not every box should be read by everyone. A report about a colleague’s conduct can go to a private box: only the custodians you name can open it — not the rest of the staff, and not the person it is about. Once a custodian accepts, even an admin cannot quietly add themselves — changes wait 72 hours and any custodian can stop them.
The parent’s language
English, 中文, Bahasa Melayu and தமிழ் are available on every plan; you enable the ones your staff can reply in. The parent who would never write to the school in English will write in the language they think in — and the whole page, poster to reply, follows their choice among the ones you’ve enabled.
What Monday looks like
The number that matters is cases nobody has opened. Your digest warns the seats while it’s internal; leave messages unopened for over a week and the box page says so to senders — “Messages to this box have been waiting unread for over a week.” Reading is enough to clear it. A student watching that page learns whether the school meant it.
Evidence, on your terms
A screenshot of the group chat arrives rebuilt pixel by pixel, so the file carries nothing about whose phone it came from. And any box can be set text-only — senders are told it was the school’s decision, and asked to describe instead.
Said before you pay
What this can’t do — and why it’s still built this way.
It cannot tell you who a child is
If a message suggests a student is in immediate danger, we cannot help you identify them — we hold nothing that could. What the thread can do is ask, fast, for enough detail to act on the situation: which class, where, when.
Your safeguarding duties stay yours
Mandatory reporting, MOE and MSF protocols, the counselling response — none of that moves to a vendor. This is the intake and the dialogue, feeding the process you already run, with a written record of both.
The trade is deliberate
Anonymity is the price of hearing from the bystander at all — a channel that could unmask its senders is a channel nobody writes to, and then there is nothing to act on. We would rather you weigh that trade now than discover it mid-incident.
Reasonable objections
What schools ask us.
Won’t students use it to prank teachers?
Some will try, mostly in week one. A prank rarely survives “which class, when, what exactly happened?” — and answering costs the prankster the effort the joke was supposed to avoid. Rate limits and the quarantine queue absorb the flood-shaped version. What remains after that is quieter — and it is the part worth reading.
Shouldn’t students tell a trusted adult instead?
Yes — and the ones who can, already do. The box is for the ones who don’t: the bystander who won’t cross the classroom, the parent who doesn’t want their child wearing the complaint. It sits alongside peer support and pastoral care as the channel of last resort that still gets read — it doesn’t replace any of them.
Do parents and students need an account or an app?
No. They scan the poster or type the address, write, and are given a way to check back for your reply — no login, no app, no email address, nothing to install on a school device. That is also why it works for the parent whose only device is a phone.
The rest — abuse and rate limits, what happens if you stop paying, who can see what — are answered honestly in the questions everyone asks.
Pricing
What an anonymous reporting channel costs a school.
A school, properly
Standard, S$29.95 a month — seats for the year heads, counsellor and discipline master, and labelled boxes for students, parents and staff so each report lands with the right reader.
A centre with one principal
Lite, S$12.95 a month — for the tuition or enrichment centre where one person reads everything, with your registered name and UEN on the page.
Not sure yet
Open a free box today — pilot it with one level and read what arrives. Anonymous dialogue, all four languages and the full protection set are on every plan, free included.
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