Furries in schools

[Jamfirstest]

I have name changed for this. Forgive me if this isn't the right board but I need to talk this through to get my head around this.

Another parent has just told me there is a furry community of young people at her dc secondary school which is in my city and an ordinary comprehensive.

The school is humouring the accessories and so on and they now have a designated room in the school to congregate. Apparently there was a request for a litter tray in the toilets though this was denied (google tells me this aspect might have been a hoax attempt).

The secondaries around here are super strict with uniforms. How is this allowed???

So I'm told some children will only respond in animal noises.

I knew what a furry was before. What adults do for fun is none of my business. But this in schools???? Or have I been under a rock?

No I don't think the whole thing, as in the existence of furries, is fabricated.

I strongly contend that schools are allowing children to flout the dress code (where applicable), meow in lieu of answers in class, are installing litter boxes, giving children bowls to eat out of, or allowing children to scratch and bite others without challenge.

There will always be kids who follow alternative trends - emos, goths, furries. But the idea that they're taking over and can't be challenged because they're "special" is total crap.

Do show me the post where I've made up quotes and attributed them to you and other posters.

You literally admitted your "paraphrasing" on the last page.

There were goths at school when I was a kid, and guess what? Some of them flouted the dress codes on make up and jewellery and got away with it. Why couldn't that happen now?

@Boombatty Yes, I could tell but Twas my quote.

No one else would have known. 🙄

@Boombatty But nice attempt to get away with it 😉

@Cazpar also you mean contest not contend, otherwise you're agreeing with the statement.

It's blatantly obvious from that post that I'm describing general responses on this thread aka paraphrasing yes. I'm shocked if you can't tell that from the context.

Weirdly, both you and MancesterBeatrice seem to think I'm directly quoting you/them.

@Cazpar 🤣👏

Oh @Boombatty bless you.

You are committed. And you are making me smile.

Huh? You could tell that I was paraphrasing because of the context but still went on to accuse me both of misquoting you and making up entirely new sentences?

And now Cazpar is saying that my post misquotes her not you 🤪

Not sure what you think I'm trying to get away with. What did I post that misrepresented you?

Thinking about it I saw a teenager (maybe 14?) with a tail and skirt on the other week, with a mask (a fabric COVID style one) with a nose and whiskers printee on. How very odd. Surely all these ears and tails fall foul of uniform standards?! Maybe if uniforms were less strict kids could express themselves more easily without having to resort to pretending to be an animal for attention

Well yeah you essentially called me and my DD liars because I recounted DD's experience at school and then changed tack and said the stuff I described wasn't actually surprising after all. Then accused me of misquoting you while also admitting you knew it was clearly a paraphrase. If you get joy out of that then I wish you well but don't think there's any point engaging with you any further.

@Boombatty Still admiring the commitment 🤣

@Boombatty 👋

Given the number of teachers on MN I’m surprised that none have come onto this thread to confirm or deny.

I have heard claims of this from a friends son, but I also know that kids chat shit.

I am a teacher and have said repeatedly that a) wearing ears and tails doesn't make you a furry or mean you identify as an animal and b) nobody is pandering to litter trays etc in schools.

When I was at school I used to wear black nail varnish and a dog collar and no one stopped me....a pair of ears isn't that controversial is it?

I don't get why people resort to this sort of stuff when they're losing an argument. Nasty and infantile.

Same here! It would actually be really interesting to hear a teachers side.

I am a teacher and this isn't happening at my school (which is very strict; ears wouldn't get past the gate.) but there was a whole furore on the local parents FB group about a local girls' school where girls wearing false eyelashes are put into isolation but not the girls who id'd as furries and wore tails and ears. This is a large local secondary and there were enough mums corroborating the OP for me to believe them. Why would they all lie? The eyelash-wearing girls (and by extension their mums on the thread) were understandably p'd off that they were disciplined when the furry girls weren't.

Furry rooms in UK schools?

Bollocks.

There's no way kids would be allowed to wear tails etc at my school.

Why do you think others are lying?

There's a girl local to us who goes about with a pink clip on fox tail. Idt it's catching on, though - the furry kids are obviously social outcasts, not cool in any way.