{"id":143804,"date":"2025-11-20T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/143804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:18:13","slug":"children-banned-from-singing-kpop-demon-hunters-songs-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/143804\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Banned from Singing KPop Demon Hunters Songs at School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school in the UK has banned its students from singing any songs from Netflix\u2019s hit film, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/kpop-demon-hunters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>, claiming that the music doesn\u2019t align with its \u201cChristian ethos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ceq03r3z2eqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a> reports that the Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, reached out to parents on Friday, November 14th, with a message stating the film\u2019s references to demons make some community members feel\u00a0\u201cdeeply uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the note, the school\u2019s officials asked parents to encourage 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<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, they explained that demons are \u201cassociated with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilliput.poole.sch.uk\/parent-information\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">follow-up letter<\/a> published on the school\u2019s website on Monday, November 17th, acting head teacher Lloyd Allington doubled down on his stance about the film.<\/p>\n<p>\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 wrote Allington. \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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added,\u00a0\u201cOur 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<p>KPop Demon Hunters has become Netflix\u2019s most-watched movie of all time since it debuted on the platform in June, with more than 325 million views so far. The film\u2019s main hit, \u201cGolden,\u201d earned multiple nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards. A <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/11\/kpop-demon-hunters-2-netflix-2029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sequel to the film<\/a> is scheduled to come out in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school in the UK has banned its students from singing any songs from Netflix\u2019s hit film, KPop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-143804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}