Woke Insanity: How schools are allowing kids to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs – and teachers are ‘failing to question them’

Schools are allowing children to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs – and teachers are ‘failing to question them’, it was claimed today.

There was widespread outrage earlier this week when a 13-year-old girl was branded ‘despicable’ by her teacher for rejecting her classmate’s claim that she identified as a cat.

Now further stories are emerging of pupils who identify as animals with very human characteristics – often known as ‘furries’.

At a state secondary school in Wales, one student is said to ‘meow’ when asked questions by a teacher, rather than answering in English, the Telegraph reports.

In other schools, one apparently insists on being addressed as a dinosaur, one claims to identify as a horse while another is said to wear a cape and demands to be acknowledged as a moon.

Pupils claim teachers are ‘not allowed to get annoyed’ about such behaviour in case it is seen as being discriminatory.

Litter boxes in schools?

The litter boxes in schools hoax is a rumour alleging that certain schools in North America provide litter boxes in bathrooms for students who ‘identify as cats’ or ‘furries’. 

A Michigan school district last year denied that litter boxes were provided to students who identify as ‘furries’ after a woman made the claim in a school board meeting. 

The woman, Lisa Hansen said:  ‘So yesterday, I heard that a least one of our schools has – in one of the unisex bathrooms – a litter box for the kids that identify as cats, and I am really disturbed by that. And I will do some more investigation on that.’ 

Superintendent Michael E. Sharrow said it was ‘unconscionable’ that he had to address the issue in an email to parents that was also posted on Facebook.

‘Let me be clear in this communication. There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools,’ Sharrow said.

However, lessons are reportedly becoming completely derailed by these interactions, impacting the quality of their classmates’ education. 

Tracy Shaw, of the grassroots Safe Schools Alliance, said she has seen an increasing number of reports of children identifying as animals, but added that these remain in small numbers. 

‘This is worrying, as there is a high probability that those children have been online in unregulated chat forums,’ she said. 

‘We know predators will do anything to get to children and what better way than to infiltrate chat forums pretending to be a cute furry animal? These children are often already isolated and vulnerable; they may also feel that they don’t fit in.

‘Teachers need to be showing professional curiosity when they encounter children who are identifying as animals. 

‘Affirming children as animals harms those children as it fails to look into their lives and get them the help them need. It also harms other children in the school.