Beatings games in the playground: youth protection agency urgently warns parents about the "Squid Game" series

Re-enacting the Netflix series "Squid Game" has become a dangerous trend in schools.

Now the Regensburg youth protection agency is urgently warning against it.

Regensburg - "Squid Game" - this series has probably been an issue for some people in the past few weeks.

The streaming service Netflix published the series in mid-September and since then it has developed into a phenomenon within a very short time.

Both in the positive and in the negative sense.

Because some schools have already reported that the students re-enact the series' games in the schoolyards.

For example in Augsburg.

A dangerous trend that has now also reached a daycare center in Pinneberg (Schleswig-Holstein).

According to

, one of the children is said to have said “I'll kill you” to another player at the end of a game.

By means of a letter, the contact person for work with parents, Matthias Richert, finally warned the parents about the series.

Warning of "Squid Game" - "The series is neither suitable for children nor a children's game"

In Regensburg *, the youth protection agency has now issued such a warning.

Because according to the

there have been more and more reports in the Upper Palatinate capital in recent weeks that the series is being watched by both preschool and elementary school children.

"The series is neither suitable for children nor a children's game!", The letter says.

It goes on to say that the children usually do not know the difference between fiction and reality.

Combining different topics such as child play, sadism, violence and organ trafficking can "have a disturbing, frightening and traumatizing effect on children".

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The participants in the series "Squid Game" fight for bare survival.

The children's games themed in it are now being re-enacted in schoolyards.

© Netflix / Imago

In the series, 456 highly indebted people fight for a prize money of 45.6 billion won.

They all compete in the belief that they only have to play harmless children's games.

But whoever breaks or loses the rules will be killed on the spot.

Fortunately, this is not the case in real life, but there is still a high level of potential for violence in children.

Instead, they slap, beat, or curse the losers.

"Squid Game" in the playgrounds - "Brutal exclusion principle"

For Kathrin Demmel, director of the JFF - Jugend Film Fernsehen eV, Institute for Media Education, the series is suitable for re-enactment because it follows a simple principle. "The loser loses for good," she told the PNP. The plot describes a "brutal principle of exclusion of the weaker in our society". Parents and teachers should therefore sit down with the children and make them understand “that we don't want to live together like that”. Instead, you should explain to them "Take the loser with you, they should be given a second chance."

The expert advises that parents should be made aware of the series.

You should be aware that “Squid Game” is not for children.

It is not for nothing that the release is only available from the age of 16.

However, according to the

, Demmel

also

makes

it clear: "If you act out it, it does not necessarily mean that you saw it." Instead, you could have heard it through your older siblings or friends.

According to Demmel, this creates a group effect.

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