Schools in Britain ask parents not to let their children watch “The Squid Game”

“They pretend to shoot each other”

The acclaimed South Korean TV series Squid Game, released on the online platform Netflix is ​​causing concern for parents around the world. Schoolchildren who watched the series began to play violent games and conflict, according to media reports. According to the plot of the series, hundreds of people in distress must play children’s games in which the losers are killed.

Schools in the UK have reached out to parents urging them not to show their children the Squid Game. This was reported by LAD Bible.

“We noticed that more and more children are starting to play their own versions of the series’ games on the playground, which in turn causes conflicts, ”one school said in a statement.

Many children asked the teachers if they could take part in the Squid Game. A London resident said on social media that school officials “threatened consequences” if the children watched the series and played beating games.

In another English school, management stated that “games in which children pretend to shoot each other are unacceptable.”

The popular TV series is replete with realistic scenes of violence. Its plot is built on the principle of “royal battle”, when only one person becomes the winner out of many participants, and the rest die. The characters in the series play various children’s games, and the losers are shot.

Schoolchildren in Belgium also repeat what they see in the series. The kids at recess are ‘playing squid’ and hitting the losers, a local school said on their Facebook page.

We must make every effort to stop these unhealthy and dangerous games! ”, The statement said.

from worried mothers in the column for publication Insider stated that she is now afraid to play with her young children in her favorite games from -for the “Squid Games”.

“All players are dressed up in tracksuits and play games in very playground-like interiors. As if they were big children, “the text says.

Squid Game was released on Netflix September 17th and quickly topped the top of the popular novelties. The series was highly rated by critics, with a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, has broken the record for English-speaking Netflix leaders and topped the top streaming service in at least 90 countries. In the story, a mysterious man gives a business card with an eight-digit phone number to the protagonist and offers to call if he wants to join the game. Being drawn into the game for a big reward, people go to terrible trials and murders. Some viewers called or sent text messages to the specified number out of curiosity, and as it turned out, the phone number was real.

Edition RBC previously reported that Christopher Ferguson, a psychology professor at Stetson University, stated back in 2008 that domestic violence is much more influencing child abuse than video games and movies. The likelihood of aggressive behavior in children is more likely to cause a previously experienced real cruel attitude on the part of parents or peers. On the contrary, play allows children to socialize much more actively and reduce stress levels. The generation of modern children, the “zoomers”, are much less tolerant of violence than their parents.