Schools are banning Squid Game Halloween costumes and its playground games from playgrounds
Protect the children from playing with marbles and having tug-of-war competitions
All green track jackets are eternally banned from schools for the childrens’ safety. Screenshot: Netflix
Squid Game, the Netflix show that dramatizes the horrors of both capitalist society and failing to employ proper tug-of-war strategy, is enormously popular. And with that popularity has come the inevitable moral panic, this time centered on the fact that kids are playing non-deadly versions of its deadly playground games and trying to wear green tracksuits as Halloween costumes.
The Washington Post reports that “principals at three New York elementary schools outside Syracuse” are sufficiently freaked out by kids “mimicking the violent series at recess” that they’re they’re banning these kids games from being played by kids and “telling parents that Halloween ensembles paying homage to the show won’t be allowed on school grounds.”