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Its a different world and when you see the options on official documents asking to list your gender and there are more than two options now its confusing for older folk. My father would have said they need a dose of the army or if you want to be a cat then you can eat out of a bowl, have the feline vaccinations and sterilization where appropriate.
The modern approach though is to be inclusive and provide equal opportunity for all parties involved and thats fine but you have to resource those changes and provide appropriate training to those involved providing the services and thats not happening.
When those " Cats" get bullied and their schoolwork affected who is picking up the pieces.
My son has a primary school child who will probably need gender re-assigment in the future but the parents want his new identity kept secret from other students/parents but want my son to treat him as that new identity when/where possible and using his preferred new name which becomes challenging when you have 25 kids in the class Lucky the child is moving school at years end but as I said in the other post teaching has become a much tougher job dealing with all these new wider parameters of society to cope with.
Apologies for digressing with the Trump thread....

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on October 31, 2024, 01:06:18 pm

A couple of Private schools in Melbourne have students identifying as Cats and the schools are allowing it as long as classes are not affected and have been advised to treat it as a mental health condition.

My father would have had the perfect cure for the condition (clue: it didnt involve medication). The world has gone farken mad.

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on October 31, 2024, 04:27:04 pm

Its a different world and when you see the options on official documents asking to list your gender and there are more than two options now its confusing for older folk. My father would have said they need a dose of the army or if you want to be a cat then you can eat out of a bowl, have the feline vaccinations and sterilization where appropriate.
The modern approach though is to be inclusive and provide equal opportunity for all parties involved and thats fine but you have to resource those changes and provide appropriate training to those involved providing the services and thats not happening.
When those " Cats" get bullied and their schoolwork affected who is picking up the pieces.
My son has a primary school child who will probably need gender re-assigment in the future but the parents want his new identity kept secret from other students/parents but want my son to treat him as that new identity when/where possible and using his preferred new name which becomes challenging when you have 25 kids in the class Lucky the child is moving school at years end but as I said in the other post teaching has become a much tougher job dealing with all these new wider parameters of society to cope with.
Apologies for digressing with the Trump thread....

EB sorry to say but I find the story about the child "needing" gender re-assignment (or any child) disturbing.

Based on limited facts and detail, and somewhat conflicting anecdotal reports, I'd hazard a guess and say this will be a rather harmless and short lived fad.

If we're talking school behavior, we should be a lot more worried about manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate. There have been reports for a while now about threats to mostly female teachers and his generally toxic influence on young boys. Forget the cats.

There are none at my kids' school as they would never tolerate it.
My wife works at a primary school out in Cranbourne and there are litters.

The more you read around the internet, the more you realize that this story is :

a. a few years old
b. apart from a few isolated incidents, is basically a media beat up.

https://www.google.com/search?q=students+identifying+as+cats&client=firefox-b-e&sca_esv=575e196b9b070b7e&ei=iS4jZ_D3Mpy84-EPlsmV6QU&start=0&sa=N&sstk=Aagrsuj_aCycNQq0xduFy0aLvbLv3i8lSj31zB6bOPg0jZzlNhGhbPVMXE6gUzNWwGEAv3CIWa4OvBGwq0yME3cU6OI-NVktsBNC31dPL-GdDtmMyIAk8ONAwXrwCXyivA4Wj5i0e8KvISp7QLn4SBijVFPJlBa6X9g&ved=2ahUKEwiw4PqmibiJAxUc3jgGHZZkJV04FBDy0wN6BAgIEAQ&biw=1920&bih=1006&dpr=1

What story?

My "story" about my wife's dealings with kids who identifying as cats is happening now. The kids might be harmless but the angry parents not so much.

More than one I have been told, my son and his wife are both teachers and said there are other themes other than Cats and it goes all the way up to University students. Teachers have a lot to deal with these days and have to be accepting of a wide range of mental health conditions from students and make it all work. They dont get paid enough or have the training to be part time on the job Psychologists.

Anyway my real story about kids identifying as cats just highlighted that neither side will ever agree. The usual suspects here just dismissed my "story" as made up as it doesn't suit their agenda.

Anyway my real story about kids identifying as cats just highlighted that neither side will ever agree. The usual suspects here just dismissed my "story" as made up as it doesn't suit their agenda.

They claim to only be interested in facts until the facts don’t suit their agenda.

Quote from: shawny – on October 31, 2024, 08:02:15 pm

They claim to only be interested in facts until the facts don’t suit their agenda.

Facts?  You’re having a laugh!

I’ll give you a fact: in August 2022, Australian satirical website Damascus Dropbear published a fake story about a school in Melbourne providing litter boxes. The story was quickly debunked.

Since then, the story has been repeated with the location changed to schools in different States.  Not one of the claims has any basis in fact but gullible folk continue to be sucked in.