AdolescenceNetflix British miniseries that has achieved global success, will be aired for free in the UK secondary schools, equivalent to elementary and middle school classes. The announcement was made by the local government on Monday, 31.
“This is an important initiative to encourage as many students as possible to watch the program,” said British Prime Minister Keir Stmermer. The plot accompanies a family devastated by the arrest of his 13 -year -old son, accused of murdering a schoolmate.
With intense script and filming in the sequence, the series confronts difficult issues such as bullying, growing misogyny among adolescents and parents’ impotence in the domination of social networks.
The British Prime Minister says he has watched the miniseries with his teenage children, a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, Stmerr said the experience was difficult, but the series can “help students better understand the impact of misogyny, the dangers of online radicalization and the importance of healthy relationships,” according to the agency Associated Press.
In the second, Starmer promoted a meeting with production creators and adolescence charitable organizations at his official residence in Downing Street. Jack Thorne, corrothery holder of the series, celebrated the opportunity. “Being able to take this to schools is beyond our expectations. We hope this will bring teachers to talk to the students, but what we really expect is that it leads students to talk to each other,” he said.
The initiative to display the series free of charge came from Netflix. On social networks, the platform added that “the healthy relationship institution will tender will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and caregivers to help conduct conversations about the grade.”
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Adolescence It debuted with 24.3 million views in its first four days and, until March 25, already accumulated a total of 66.3 million views, according to the latest figures released by the platform. In the United Kingdom, the production hit a historic milestone by becoming the first streaming series to lead weekly audience rates.
