The school children now identifying as animals
Difficult as it may be to believe, children at a school in East Sussex were reprimanded last week for refusing to accept a classmate s decision to self-identify as a cat.
The Year 8 pupils were told they would be reported to a senior leader after their teacher said they had really upset the fellow pupil by telling them: You re a girl.
The incident at Rye College, first reported by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, was not a one-off. Inquiries by this newspaper have established that other children at other schools are also identifying as animals, and the responses of parents suggest that the schools in question are hopelessly out of their depth on the question of how to handle the pupils behaviour.
The Telegraph has discovered that a pupil at a secondary school in the South West is insisting on being addressed as a dinosaur. At another secondary school in England, a pupil insists on identifying as a horse. Another wears a cape and wants to be acknowledged as a moon.
Stories about children self-identifying as animals sometimes referred to as furries have been circulating for some time. Some of them, such as tales of schools providing litter trays to cater for children identifying as cats, have turned out to be hoaxes, which has made it all too easy to assume that the problem is either a myth or is wildly exaggerated.
A former student and good friend of mine recently told me that many — I gathered like a score or so– of his son’s high school classmates at a large, local public high school here in San Diego, “identified” as animals of one kind or another, mostly cats. I don’t know why this is but I’m sure it’s not a good thing. The high school of course follows the woke line, accommodating as much as possible the kids’ mental illnesses. Another interesting thing is that many of these trans- (?) students take part in the ROTC program, evidently thinking the military is just the place for them. I don’t know why this is either, but it also does not sound good.