The parents of students who identify as cats often seriously insist that teachers must respect their children's identity, headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh has told LBC
A source close to Mrs Keegan told the newspaper said: “Teachers should not be teaching contested ideology as fact. They must have due regard to safeguarding if a pupil identifies as an animal.”
She continued: "For that teacher to tell her to leave and go to another school if she didn’t like what she was being told made my blood boil. What kind of welcome is that for a 13-year-old girl. "As she said that my daughter replied “so If I identify as a kangaroo then I can say I'm a kangaroo?!” The argument took place on Friday afternoon in a class on 'life education', where students were told that "who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.During the row, of which an audio recording was made, the teacher is heard to say: "How dare you – you’ve just really upset someone" by "questioning their identity".
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