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Squid Game never ceases to be talked about on social networks as between friends. But, more unexpectedly, this series in which candidates compete in bloody children’s games to win a colossal sum of money would have been invited … in a schoolyard.
This is what a viral post on social networks affirms: “URGENT TO SHARE QUICKLY. [Voici un] message from a school to the parents of pupils: “Dear parents, you have surely heard of this series Squid game. […] Characters are brought there to play children’s games and if they lose, they are eliminated… They are executed! “
“Our students therefore have fun playing” 1,2,3 Soleil “style games (as shown in the series) and the loser or loser receives blows … We are very vigilant so that this unhealthy and dangerous game is stopped! We are counting on your support and collaboration to make your children aware of the consequences that this can have! Sanctions will be taken against children who continue this game! », Continues this message.
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This ad was originally published by a school. More precisely on October 5 on the Facebook page “Erquelines center / Béguinage municipal schools” in Belgium.
With more than 33,000 shares, this viral publication was quickly the subject of a report by our colleagues from RTBF. We learn in particular, from the mouths of certain students of the Erquelinnes school, that the losers of the version Squid Game of “1,2,3 Soleil” practiced in the establishment find themselves whipped with a cord, and that many children from 11 to 12 years old have watched the series (although not recommended for children under 16).
One of the school’s teachers also details the measures immediately taken in response to this phenomenon: “We brought the children together, we discussed. We explained to them that it was dangerous, that it should not happen again in a playground, or even at home. […] They questioned themselves. I have seen remorse in some. I think now they have figured it out. “
National Education provides a “warning message”
In another RTBF article published later, the director of the Erquellines municipal school recounts how the teachers discovered this phenomenon: “On Monday, the teachers saw one or two students who were crying. They asked what was going on, and there, we were told that the children of sixth grade were playing this game which looks like the one in the series, it is “1,2,3 Soleil”, but modified, since the children who were eliminated were whipped. “
Contacted by 20 minutes in order to find out if feedback from the field reports similar games in certain playgrounds in France, the National Education indicates that “a warning message will be sent to the academic directors of the National Education services concerning the eventuality of Squid Game “.