On Microsoft Teams, pupils can send messages to each other or to staff using the "status / @ tag " option.
Messaging has been disabled in the Admin policies, but pupils have worked out a different way to achieve this.
There is a user voice link from Microsoft that requires more "votes" to get it noticed by their engineering team.
Here is the link to the user voice : https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40372600-remove-the-status-message-feature-for-students
Would appreciate folks up voting this user voice link
thanks