Any "fluffies" (children identifying as cats) at your child's school?

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I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

I know a secondary school where they do it!

Which secondary school is this?

What where they have actual litter trays for children to use?

I very much doubt it

Yes. DC was googling "is furry a sexuality ". I had to intervene. It's a YouTube thing. Appeals to tweens who still love animals etc. I've managed to divert DC I think

Moral panic.
Two local head teachers have had to actually put out an email denying that this would ever come to pass in their schools, thanks to 'my cousin's neighbour's cat said she goes to the same school your grandkid does' bollocks.

I’ve seen children coming in with cat ears on hair bands but no one identifies as a cat and shits in a litter tray.

If they did then who would empty it?

Sometimes if a child is sick or wees on the floor then a product that is a little like cat litter is used to soak it up. Could someone have seen that?

My friends husband works with a ‘cat’. Don’t know about a litter box but he did say something about ‘unhygenic’

Yes.

My children, at two different secondary schools, have both mentioned this.
Oldest child had a girl in her art class who identifies as a cat and drinks cartons of cat milk. Staff went along with it, sixth form so no uniform issues or anything.

Other child was very put out last year because they were being policed for uniform but, in their words 'the furries are allowed ears and tails, but I get detention for wearing nike socks.' On further questioning she mentioned there are several cats (one of whom randomly hisses at people and climbs on desks, which they do get told off for), a dragon and a wolf in her year group (year 9). Bog standard comprehensive but very taken with the whole 'identity' thing.

No reason not to believe it, both of them only mentioned it in passing, like it wasn't a big deal.

No litter trays though.

Remember this story from last year?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12209919/Full-audio-Student-rejected-classmates-claim-shes-CAT-scolded-teacher.html

I've spoken to one of the girls who made the recording and to her mother. The girl said that there was a pupil in her class who, for some time, identified as a cat.

Yes, in my school there is now a specialist class for children who identify as animals. Unfortunately having them all in one class doesn’t work, as you can imagine the cats fight with the dogs and the horses set up hurdles with the furniture to practice show jumping. There are now plans to build an entire school for these children so that each species can have its own its own class with the specialist facilities needed.

The litter box thing is clearly made up, but I don't find the rest of it at all hard to believe tbh. I can see some schools indulging this kind of nonsense.

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This is true. My neighbour's cousin's grandparent's plumber read about it on Reddit.

Can you imagine if a ‘cat’ school gets a really good reputation and loads of pushy parents are making their children identify as cats just to get them in?

‘I don’t care if you think you are a horse, Jeremy. You’ll have to put these ears on and stop whinnying. It’s this or going to Mass every week to get you into the Catholic school’.

Can you imagine if a ‘cat’ school gets a really good reputation and loads of pushy parents are making their children identify as cats just to get them in?

I want to teach at a cat school. 90% of the school day would be nap time. 🤣

In the primary school where I work we have a child who thinks they are a cat. I currently teach someone who thinks they are Dr Who. I used to teach someone who came to school dressed as Robin Hood every morning because he thought he was Robin Hood. He would hand his bow and arrows to the child minder and hang his hat on his peg. I have taught children who think they are foxes, princesses, pirates. One of the children thought he was a doctor. Because they are children. With active imaginations. I thought I was the pink power ranger for years! Turns out I’m not. I was roared at by a child who thinks they are a T-Rex the other day. And the best one was when I taught “the real spider man”.
Better get writing those safe guarding documents / talking to the daily mail… FFS.

Not a hoax. There are a couple of "furries" at my daughter's secondary school. They wear the ears and a tail and run on all fours. Not all day every day but regularly. They don't use a litter tray.

That would improve teacher well being and job satisfaction! 🤣

That is different the case in the first post though. Dressing up at lunch time is very different to everyone having to believe you are a cat and letting you use a litter tray.

The litter tray thing is actually being rolled out across all schools in England and Wales (not Scotland as they've opted out and the DUP are trying to make some last minute amends in NI). It's how they're tackling the vaping in school loos issue.

Sure they do. Try running on all fours and then get back to me as to how likely this is.

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Good one 🤣

I haven’t read the full thread but I’ve a hunch this one will work out for you.

This. One of my patients assured me it was happening at our local secondary. It isn't, I know people with kids there. It's just one of those things that gets passed around and gullible people believe it.

Yes, that's entirely probable. I've heard that eventually, the whole of the UK will just be cat schools. Apart from the wolf ones, of course.
I'd really like to teach cats. Sounds great. Not so much back chat.