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Teacher identifying as cat - Queensland/Australia

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SeethingHarpie · 07/02/2025 23:13

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

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Barbie222 · 08/02/2025 09:50

Honestly, is this really true?

If a teacher is licking children, they need to be out of a job and on the sex offenders register pronto.

I can't really believe it tbh!

Womanofcustard · 08/02/2025 10:04

Aren’t they culling cats in Queensland because of the devastation they’re causing to wildlife?

WillIEverBeOk · 08/02/2025 10:06

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 09:39

Do you also campaign to have children who prescribed puberty blockers for other reasons refused medication?

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I guess you didn't know that children with Precocious Puberty only receive the blockers for 6 months to a year. Two at most. With 'trans', its an average of 6 years and at a higher dosage, hence more risk and damage.

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:12

MarsScarlet · 08/02/2025 07:30

Lovely.

ATM, I think that's a fairly standard generic statement from the Department of Education.

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Generic?

"..the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher" is very specific.

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 10:14

It reads to me that it’s more likely someone making an anti trans point as that is not how furries behave.

Boiledbeetle · 08/02/2025 10:16

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 10:14

It reads to me that it’s more likely someone making an anti trans point as that is not how furries behave.

Not all furries behave the same.

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 10:19

Boiledbeetle · 08/02/2025 10:16

Not all furries behave the same.

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They do tend to avoid behaviour that will get them fired though. 1) I am dubious this happened - the previous school stories turned out to be nonsense.
2) it’s more likely to be someone making a point than genuine.

Occam’s Razor doesn’t usually let you down. Although there are exceptions. This would be vanishingly unlikely to be true for a variety or reasons. Also if true I would have expected to see it all over Twitter. My feed may not have caught up yet of course, but nothing as of yet.

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:24

This would be vanishingly unlikely to be true for a variety or reasons.

Once again, why did the Department of Education spokesperson say that the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher and that "this behaviour is not acceptable in Queensland state schools.”?

If it isn't true and it didn't happen, why didn't the spokesperson say "This isn't true, it didn't happen"?

Yazzi · 08/02/2025 10:25

Barbie222 · 08/02/2025 09:50

Honestly, is this really true?

If a teacher is licking children, they need to be out of a job and on the sex offenders register pronto.

I can't really believe it tbh!

You'd be right not to believe it, because it both isn't true, and hasn't been stated anywhere as being something that happened.

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:26

Yazzi · 08/02/2025 10:25

You'd be right not to believe it, because it both isn't true, and hasn't been stated anywhere as being something that happened.

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Once again, why did the Department of Education spokesperson say that the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher and that "this behaviour is not acceptable in Queensland state schools.”?

If it isn't true and it didn't happen, why didn't the spokesperson say "This isn't true, it didn't happen"?

Yazzi · 08/02/2025 10:27

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:26

Once again, why did the Department of Education spokesperson say that the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher and that "this behaviour is not acceptable in Queensland state schools.”?

If it isn't true and it didn't happen, why didn't the spokesperson say "This isn't true, it didn't happen"?

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Show me specifically in any article where it says the teacher licked the children.

MarsScarlet · 08/02/2025 10:46

@Chersfrozenface

Generic?

"..the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher" is very specific.

No, not at all. The principal might have had mentioned to the teacher that she should be more careful about the use of phones in her classroom, ie. we don't know the specifics of that conversation. It's a bland summary.

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:48

The article quoted is badly written, and also an example of the downside of using "their" as both a singular and plural possessive pronoun.

"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."

Because "themselves" is used to refer to a teacher and the noun "students" is used in the same sentence, it is not clear to whom "their hands" refers. Personally I think it means the teacher licked the backs of his/her hands in an imitation of feline behaviour. But the paragraph as written could be interpreted as the teacher licking the students' hands.

Anyway, there are other behaviours:
"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."
and
"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.”

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 10:54

MarsScarlet · 08/02/2025 10:46

@Chersfrozenface

Generic?

"..the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher" is very specific.

No, not at all. The principal might have had mentioned to the teacher that she should be more careful about the use of phones in her classroom, ie. we don't know the specifics of that conversation. It's a bland summary.

The article is about a teacher wearing fur ears and imitating feline behaviour. The newspaper asked the Department of Education about this specific case.

In reply "A Department of Education spokesperson said the school was aware of parents’ concerns and the principal had addressed the issue directly with the teacher."

The issue in question being wearing fur ears and imitating feline behaviour. Not mobile phones or anything else.

WandsOut · 08/02/2025 11:11

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 10:14

It reads to me that it’s more likely someone making an anti trans point as that is not how furries behave.

How do furries behave?

MarsScarlet · 08/02/2025 11:16

@Chersfrozenface

The issue in question being wearing fur ears and imitating feline behaviour. Not mobile phones or anything else.

Photos were taken of her in the classroom, by students presumably.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 08/02/2025 11:17

If it's not true, why didn't the Dept of Education say that?

Instead they confirmed the story by saying:

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.”

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 11:19

MarsScarlet · 08/02/2025 11:16

@Chersfrozenface

The issue in question being wearing fur ears and imitating feline behaviour. Not mobile phones or anything else.

Photos were taken of her in the classroom, by students presumably.

So there are photos extant of the teacher's behaviour and yet simultaneously it didn't happen?

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 11:20

Chersfrozenface · 08/02/2025 11:19

So there are photos extant of the teacher's behaviour and yet simultaneously it didn't happen?

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But where are these photos then. I’d have imagined the concerned parents would have sent them to the press?

Boiledbeetle · 08/02/2025 11:20

Do you remember the "it's not true that never happened" posts when the Canadian teacher made the news?

Now I'm not saying the furry teacher actually exists, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it entirely as being completely made up click bait and denigrate anyone who believes it could be true

These days NOTHING would surprise me as to what teachers think is acceptable behaviour in front of children At this point in the madness of the last few years anything is possible.

I really do hope this is a completely false story, because if it's not then I despair!

FeralWoman · 08/02/2025 11:24

GrammarTeacher · 08/02/2025 11:20

But where are these photos then. I’d have imagined the concerned parents would have sent them to the press?

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Here you go. Photos.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/miss-purr-queensland-teacher-allegedly-behaving-like-a-cat-in-class/news-story/ff1bcd7cd5b14cccf0ed4684ab578eab

MelisandeLongfield · 08/02/2025 11:24

If I was allowed to identify as a cat at work, I'd climb on top of a cupboard, curl up, and go to sleep all day.

AstonScrapingsNameChange · 08/02/2025 11:24

sadmillenial · 08/02/2025 03:06

the difference is..... that it's different?

its a completely different thing, gender fluidity has a massive and very well documented history across multiple cultures and countries. To deny it flies in the face of any measure of accepted historical record.

You can hold a position on either side of that issue, that's up to you to decide, but diminishing it and equating it to a very obviously false report of something else entirely is gross. Do better.

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Oh sod off with your high and mighty 'do better'. Who do you think you are, ordering people around?

Grow up and learn to argue properly.

FeralWoman · 08/02/2025 11:32

I saw elsewhere online that it was suggested that the student who took the photos might be a drug dealer. Theory is that the student has a prepaid/disposable/burner phone for drug dealing which might explain the terrible quality of the photos. The student would have their real/more expensive phone turned off and stored away at school, as required in all Queensland state schools. The drug dealing theory is because the socioeconomic status and demographics of the school’s area is low income, high amount of immigrants, public housing and high crime. Possibly dealing on behalf of the parents. Lovely bit of stereotyping there.