The most poignant part of Squid Game was that they had the chance to leave, and many chose to participate anyway because of how badly they needed the money.
This should have been a simple donation instead of a “game”, but the real evil is the broken system that put the teachers in this position to begin with.
Article kind of burys the lede, this is the issue at hand and what makes this tasteless. If this was just extra money for a field trip or something that's one thing, but this isn't a donation to the class, it's replacing things that the teachers personally buy because the schools don't purchase basic supplies.
Sounds like the game is the result of several levels of wrong stacked on top of each other.
(disclaimer: presently employed by a SD school system, but not this one.)
