Teacher identifying as cat - Queensland/Australia

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https://www.couriermail.com.au/queensland-education/schools-hub/marsden-state-high-school-teacher-who-identifies-as-a-cat/news-story/8d5215b672a8ebb9223507c0ad177944

Are cats even allowed on school grounds?
I certainly would not leave a cat in charge of children.

Mental health issue maybe..?
Call the RSPCA and have cat thoroughly checked out, speyed, vaccinated and rehomed to .. a forever home.

Can't read it, can you give a snippet of what it's about?

Although I thought they had the law where cats can only be indoor ones, how does she cope going home/shopping etc?

Dresses in cat ears, licks kids' handsetc. Parents are concerned!

Bloody brilliant. One day sense will return

Australian misogyny can go fuck itself. Lawfully allow people to identify as things that they are not? These are the batshit consequences.

Why is this relevant to teaching time with the children? Do all the other teachers talk about identifying as a man or woman, or do they simply crack on with chemistry and French?

And @user1492757084 licking children’s hands? What does the headteacher think about children having teachers saliva on them? 🤮

Can't read it without paying, but the (partly pixellated) photo looks more like a guy, but apparently calling him(?)self "Miss Purr", which seems even more disturbing. Definitely would not want any child of mine anywhere near him, if he was in this country! But surely the solution should be simple - the state does not employ cats (and certainly not to teach children), so he either needs to decide he's actually human pretty sharpish, or be fired, no?!

Its also in Daily Mail.
Hisses at children. Parents are not happy.
School is now addressing the issue. Government agrees that it is not acceptable teacher behaviour.

Daily mail version

Teacher who 'identifies as a cat' accused of hissing at students and licking back of their hands mol.im/a/14374055

Thanks @Boiledbeetle

This will not be true. These stories never are.

From the article:

”A Queensland high school teacher has been referring to themselves as a cat, while also allegedly hissing at students and licking the back of their hands in disturbing classroom behaviour.

Photos and short videos show the Marsden State High School teacher in a classroom wearing a cat ears headband and a lanyard with the word “purr” on it.
Marsden has a student cohort of more than 3000.

The Courier-Mail has been told the teacher was asking to be referred to as Miss Purr, and has been seen wearing the ears around school grounds over multiple days, including at an assembly.”

I suppose the teacher could be trying to put the kids off alternative life choices! I mean none of those kids are going to go down the furry route now are they!!

From the article:

”A relative of one student claimed the teacher had even hissed and growled at them when they asked a question or didn’t listen.

“(The teacher) forces the children to call her Miss Purr and screeches and growls when they don’t listen,” the relative said.

“(The teacher) sits in class and licks her hands.
“It’s absolutely disgusting.
“Something needs to be done about this.”

From the article:

”Another relative of a student told The Courier-Mail their child barks at the teacher when walking past them.
“It’s more frustrating that the mainstream schooling, and education system we are sending our kids to every day has teachers doing things like this,” they said.
“I want teachers who I can rely on to teach my kids what they need in life, and be someone they can look up to which isn’t someone that wears ears.
“How can a student respect a teacher acting and walking around with animal ears?”

A Department of Education spokesperson said the school was aware of parents’ concerns and the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher.
“Teachers are held to the highest standards of professionalism and ethics,” the spokesperson said,
“This behaviour is not acceptable in Queensland state schools.”

I'm Australian. Even though it's in Queensland, I'm not convinced. It's in the Courier-Mail, to start with. It has all the predictable rage sites frothing so ... jury is out for the moment for me.

“I want teachers who I can rely on to teach my kids what they need in life, and be someone they can look up to which isn’t someone that wears ears."

I found this statement kind of hilarious 😹

Do you have a child in Queensland Education at present? I do, and I would not be at all surprised if it was true - given the previous Qld government rules and dictates around GI in schools…

It will be as true as the stories about schools "putting down litterboxes for students identifying as cats".

Any teacher licking students hands is an immediate safeguarding concern and should be immediately suspended. Which I hope - if this is true - is what will happen.

If a teacher licked my child's hand my child would not attend school until that teacher was removed and I'd be using every safeguarding channel available to me.

Just looked at the schools facebook page and a public page for parents with children attending this school. There is not one mention of this teacher.
Its just a hoax

But the article itself says that the department doesn't agree with the conduct and has addressed it with the teacher. So basically what a non issue.

The article says (based on literally a third hand source) that the teacher licked their own hands, not a child's.

Yes - the current (new) state government has released a statement saying it is unacceptable.

The previous government (with a minister who has a trans-identifying child), have enacted legislation and regulations within the Education Department that are completely captured by GI ideology.

Hopefully, if true and the response from the Education Minister is factual, then the new government will ensure the ridiculous handbooks and policies that are so damaging to children are dumped and replaced with sanity.

I love the way the regular TRA posters come on threads like these determined to make it not true, as if there’s some sort of logic that states it’s nonsensical for a human to identify as a different species, but not the opposite sex 🤣