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Showing Adolescence in schools lets parents off the hook

6 April 2025

4:00 PM

6 April 2025

4:00 PM

Parents are up in arms. The Prime Minister’s decision to allow all state secondary schools to screen Adolescence, the scary Netflix series about a 13-year-old murdering a classmate for taunting him online as being undesirable, has parenting groups fuming.

Keir Starmer believes that showing the drama will teach adolescents about the dangers lurking online which are driving toxic relationships.

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