The rise of the ‘furries’: 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....<<<Read More>>>...