BAND

BAND (owned by the massive South Korean tech titan Naver) is a wildcard in the education space. It was not explicitly built *only* for schools; it is a massively popular general group communication app. However, it absolutely exploded in the US education market specifically among "Extracurriculars"—High School Marching Bands, Varsity Football Teams, Cheerleading Squads, and Theater Troupes. Its absolute biggest differentiator is its "Group Cohesion Tools." A massive marching band with 200 students and 400 parents does not need a simple text message. They need a highly complex calendar to track 50 different summer rehearsals, a shared photo album to upload 1,000 photos from the state championship, and a polling feature to vote on the design of the new band t-shirt. BAND provides all of this in one incredibly sleek app. Because it handles massive, chaotic groups, its "Sub-Chat" and "Sign-Up" features are legendary. The Head Coach can create the massive "Varsity Football" BAND. Inside that, they can spin up a private chat just for the Quarterbacks, and another chat just for the parents organizing the Friday night pre-game dinner, keeping the massive chaos perfectly organized.