The South Korean series Squid Game may be ruling the world right now, but some schools are not into children recreating violent games on their property? Who’d have thought? The Washington Post says that three schools have officially fully banned the costumes for the Halloween season. Guess the kids will just have to go as the youth-appropriate Slutty Bunny costume.
Retro tracksuits and white Vans saw a huge increase in sales after Squid Game hit the scene. In the series, a group of down-on-their-luck people in intense debt are brought together to play twisted games where they could die at any moment in order to win millions and millions of dollars. After they agree to the games, the contestants are kidnapped and wake up to find themselves dressed in green tracksuits and white slip-on shoes–hence the need for people to go out and buy tracksuits and Vans. 142 million people have reportedly watched the series.
Three elementary schools in New York have banned the costumes, sending out emails to the parents of about 1,500 students who attend Mott Road, Fayetteville, and Enders Road schools, which are all in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District. The email said the costumes were not allowed for the 5-10-year-olds “due to the potential violent message aligned with the costume.” Question: how did an elementary school kid watch Squid Game in the first place? Does no one have parents who pay attention to them? I wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons when I was a kid, but little kids are watching people get gruesomely killed? Okay…
Fayetteville-Manlius School District’s Superintendent, Craig Tice, said that staff have noticed children recreating Squid Game at recess:
“Because of this activity our principals wanted to make sure our families are aware that it would be inappropriate for any student to wear to school a Halloween costume from this show.”
Yeah! Squid Game is a violent show and kids shouldn’t dress in costumes like that. Instead, they should dress as something wholesome and gentle like a man-eating werewolf, or a Frankenstein creation made of different corpses’ body parts, or a blood-sucking vampire. Keep it G-rated, kids.
Pic: Netflix