{"id":145416,"date":"2025-11-17T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145416\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:53:07","slug":"school-bans-kids-from-singing-kpop-demon-hunters-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145416\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bans Kids From Singing KPop Demon Hunters Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schools love to crush kids\u2019 spirits when they\u2019re all collectively hyperfixating on something, so it\u2019s almost surprising that it took four months of pop culture dominance for an educational institution to try and ban KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> from its hallways. Is it because the kids are too busy singing about the power of friendship<\/a> to do their classwork? Nope! It\u2019s because some folks at the school are apparently uncomfortable with children referencing something with demons in it.<\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> reports that the Christian Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent an email to families on Friday, November 14, saying that some of the church\u2019s Christian employees and students are \u201cdeeply uncomfortable\u201d with the film\u2019s references to demons, which include the songs the titular girl group performs. The email asked parents to tell their kids \u201cnot to sing these songs at school out of respect for those who find the themes at odds with their faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an update today, November 17, head teacher Lloyd Allington said that some parents had responded arguing that KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 music had a positive impact on their children, with its songs prioritizing \u201cteamwork, courage, and kindness.\u201d Still, the school\u2019s leadership seems unmoved in its decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we fully respect your right to make choices about the content your child engages with at home, we also want to be mindful of the diversity of beliefs within our school community,\u201d Allington said in the email. \u201cFor some Christians, references to demons can feel deeply uncomfortable because they associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not asking parents to tell their children that there is anything wrong with enjoying the film or its songs if it aligns with your own views and beliefs\u2026Our role will simply be to help children understand that some of their peers may hold different views and to explore how we can respect and support those peers in upholding their faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I was in elementary school, my teachers tried to put a blanket ban on Pok\u00e9mon. It didn\u2019t stick. These kinds of rulings never do because by the time that schools decide these cultural phenomena are a problem, they\u2019re too ingrained in how kids connect with one another to just forcefully remove them from school grounds. Kids will find a way to talk about and enjoy the things they love, no matter how many times you try to smother them. Lock in for 2029, school teachers. Huntr\/x will be back with new songs when KPop Demon Hunters 2<\/a> comes to Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools love to crush kids\u2019 spirits when they\u2019re all collectively hyperfixating on something, so it\u2019s almost surprising that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,3622,278],"class_list":["post-145416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}