Children at a school on the Isle of Wight have launched a petition after a new 'prison-like regime' brought in for the new year has left students feeling like they are contestants in Squid Game.
Pupils returned to Cowes Enterprise College last week to find a complete overhaul of the previous rules, with toilets now locked during lesson time, flavoured drinks banned and a 'drill sergeant' forcing pupils to stand outside in the rain.
Now it has been revealed that the school has started playing music through corridors between lessons, threatening pupils with detention if they do not make their next class by the time the music ends in a twisted game of musical chairs.
The school has also covered the windows and doors with paper 'so that the children could not see in and out', according to one parent.
Despite backlash from parents at the weekend, the school told parents on Monday that they were 'blowing things out of proportion'.
