“We’ve Lost Adult Authority” Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh On Children Identifying As Cats 

What happened to let kids be kids?

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@@run2cat4run let kids be kid cats? let kids be kittens? really, i can get some teacher humoring some kid who's having a laugh by pretending to be a cat, and the teacher humors them to teach a lesson about tolerance. but overall that's not a good strategy, it gives the idiots who are transphobes ammunition.

@@vforwombat9915 so should we set rules on how kids should be and act like dictators

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Amazing parents are either ignorant about it or just not standing up to this nonsense!!

@@marydaniel3252 Not to worry. Now the UK's education system has yet again become a global laughing stock, it seems the government's brave and fearless Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, is going to put an end to all this toxic nonsense. If she can manage to summon up the courage...

For the benefit of all the people involved in this debacle, (including the government's Education Secretary) I think its worth taking a closer look at what the word 'despicable' actually means... DESPICABLE (adjective). 'contemptible, worthless and deserving to be despised.'

far from being new its way older than religion...the kids are behaving as animists have done for hundreds of thousands of years...worshipping the spirit of the animal by dressing like it...using mantras (spells) and magical diagrams and doing rituals and ceremonies to gain the powers of the animal worshipped...don't worry about the kids many adults are animists...lots have mixed it with hinduism or buddhism...the phenomenon of the weretiger is all thru the ancient lore of thailand

Well said.

I suggest also that the parents are not assuming and owning up to their responsibility as parents and all that entails.

so simply telling a joke that you are a cat should get you disciplined in the workplace? or is it okay to tell harmless jokes in that setting? but not okay in schools?

You are one hundred percent right. I left the profession because of this.

Me too.Luckily I was old enough to retire when this started hitting in 2016. I cannot teach 'A' level Biology to girls who claim to be boys and pretend it's irrelevant.

I couldn't agree more. The quieter, well behaved kids are always the ones who suffer. I've long thought the solution to this is to remove the disruptive kids, but then to give them MORE support, one-to-one tuition, away from the rest of the class. That way, their parents can't claim they're being left behind. But the bottom line is, they cannot be allowed to stay in there and drag everyone else down. It's a huge problem, that's nobody seems to have the balls to tackle as we watch standards in this country slip further and further down the toilet.

​@@matteoj226 The trouble is that one-on-one tuition is very expensive. Why should bad behaviour be rewarded by more expensive and maybe better teaching than the good kids get? What we need for these kids is boot camps (or even borstals) run by hard as nails sergeant majors.

@@DavidGetling I take your point, but realistically nobody is going to stand for that these days. The point is though, they absolutely have to be removed from the classroom to stop dragging the other kids down and intimidating the teachers. They need to go out and into some sort of 'specialist' measures, whether thats intense 1-2-1 tuition, detention, borstall or a mixture of all three. I suspect though that giving them more help, away from the classroom, would be the only viable plan, because then the parents couldnt complain they theyve been cut adrift. Hopefully they would get bored anyway and want to come back to the classroom, and get their act together. To use a crude analogy, it would be like the governments Rwanda policy. The idea is that it's a deterrent, not many people actually get sent there.

pretending to be a cat is not perverted,you silly, silly person.

far from being new its way older than religion...the kids are behaving as animists have done for hundreds of thousands of years...worshipping the spirit of the animal by dressing like it...using mantras (spells) and magical diagrams and doing rituals and ceremonies to gain the powers of the animal worshipped...don't worry about the kids many adults are animists...lots have mixed it with hinduism or buddhism...the phenomenon of the weretiger is all thru the ancient lore of thailand

A young goat is a kid. A child is a human being. "The beginning of wisdom is the ability to call things by their proper names." - Confucius.

@@2gointruth yeah, no….dude, get realistic, kid hasn‘t been a goat for as long as b‘tch hasn‘t been a dog

​@@2gointruthare you talking about Kǒng Qiū. How about you use the proper names for people.

A young goat is a kid. A child is a human being. "The beginning of wisdom is the ability to call things by their proper names." - Confucius.

That would've been a victorian solution.

Kathryn is, but the interviewer is a jeramy.

If your bosses treated you the way teachers treat student's, you'd swear at them too.

@@Mr.Goodkatthey aren’t even acknowledging the children.

@@Benlovescheese Birbalsingh is a misopedist, she wouldn't acknowledge them due to this personality disorder.

@@Benlovescheese Birbalsingh is a mis0p3dist so she'd not acknoweldge them for that reason.

@@Benlovescheese Birbalsingh is a m.i.s.o.p.e.d.i.s.t, she wouldn't acknowledge them for that reason.

The child identifying as a cat never happened - it was a joke...!

@@steverocky7215 , perhaps that particular one was a joke but, sadly, there are many young people who are into the furry scene or otherkin scene. It isn't a joke.

@@evieblessed It's just a fad - all kids go through stages of sillyness - all part of growing up. You should worry more about the people trying to control them into conforming.

White parents want to be their kids best friends instead of parents, I can guarantee it doesn’t happen in black families either

Most people don't tolerate this, Muslims bring their own problems and have no place in England.

Shame happened in my household! It's nothing to do with culture, its to do with weak laws, that allow this to go on, it's become to left that's the problem, it wasn't this way for me as a child & I was able to parent how I was taught, which obviously made my Child gain the same values as me! My sons work & are very respectful to anyone who is to them, I taught respect is earned, you go further in life aswell.

Perfect, just do it at home because cats don‘t go to school

and give them a litter tray to squat on in the corner of the classroom.

Did you know....The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience *increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties,* according to a new meta-analysis of *50 years of research on spanking* by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.

Bull, I’d be a bull. My friends would have followed and snail,slug and maggot would have been snapped up very quickly as their identity’s

Gorillas are far from violent. Only when threatened. That is a stereotype that has been handed down from King Kong movies. Gorillas are highly intelligent articulate animals whose behaviour is predominantly of nurturing and protecting their environment for their survival. They do a far better job at rearing their offspring than humans do.

Yes absolutely correct. Following up with an absence report to the parents and a fine if it persists. Kids deliberately and selfishly disrupting the classroom, holding back the rest of the class which is wasting precious tax payers money. What a mess, no discipline or principles, weak heads - this could easily and swiftly have been resolved by the school - including disciplining that teacher. Full marks to the pupil exposing these shenanigans.

Just take it all the way. You say you're a Cat. You eat fish and use a litter tray and as you say you dont go to school. Maybe the schools could set up some kind of petting Zoo where they weirdo kids go to learn the art of catching mice.

I used to read and believe the Guardian. When they reported on this woman they spoke of a strict authoritarian who imposed Victorian rules on children. Turns out her school is in an inner city area and over the last decade or so, while being slandered by media like the guardian, they've delivered among the best results in the country with some of the most deprived students by following traditional conservative values.

me too and a few years ago she thanked me for it, what made it even more moving is that she is my stepdaughter

Spare the rod ruin the child and in my experience of 71 years it's true,they are absolutely horrible creatures just like there parents.

I like it 😂🤣

far from being new its way older than religion...the kids are behaving as animists have done for hundreds of thousands of years...worshipping the spirit of the animal by dressing like it...using mantras (spells) and magical diagrams and doing rituals and ceremonies to gain the powers of the animal worshipped...don't worry about the kids many adults are animists...lots have mixed it with hinduism or buddhism...the phenomenon of the weretiger is all thru the ancient lore of thailand

One of my children pretended to be a bird, and two pretended to be cats - but they were only toddlers at the time, it was intermittent, and they grew out of it. Unfortunately it appears that childish behaviour is being encouraged.

they also don't learn anything

I loved my teachers at Gawthorpe County High, they enforced discipline in a fantastic, fair and explanatory way, treating us with an authoritative, guiding and respectful manner they were ace, you all know who you are, and I thank you, as children growing into young adults we were taught boundaries, but were able to question they were true teachers and educators

The Good Samaritan… “An expert in the law came forward to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said, ‘What is written in the Law?’ ‘How do you read it?’ He replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and love your neighbour as yourself.’ ‘That is the right answer,’ said Jesus. ‘Do that and you will live.’ But he wanted to vindicate himself; so he said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ In reply Jesus said: ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. It so happened that a priest was going down by the same road; but when he saw him, he went past on the other side. So too a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he went past on the other side: But a Samaritan who was making the journey came upon him, and when he saw him was moved to pity. He went up and bandaged his wounds, bathing them with oil and wine. Then he lifted him on to his own beast, brought him to an inn, and looked after him there. [The Jews, at that time, looked down upon Samaritans] Next day he produced two silver pieces and gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend any more, I will repay you on my way back.’ ‘Which of these three do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?’ He answered, ‘The one who had mercy on him.’ Jesus said, ‘Go and do as he did.’” - (at Luke 10: 25-37) -

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Liar. Nobody identifying as cats Authority is gone but nobody thinks they a cat

Exactly

Ah! Whose boss?…what a clever ruse!…. Wish you were in control of the Covid Inquiry!

Kids in Asia and Africa are going to advance way beyond Western kids in the next few years, if they aren't already.

💯 agree

It would be draining to "deprogram them" every day. But I agree that talking to your children as much as possible is important. I ask my son every single day how school was. What he did, anything that happened, etc. I wish I could home school, but for a lot of parents, that isn't an option. But I do make a lot of effort to do my own lessons with my son during school breaks.

Considering she sets 5 hours of it a day and detention every day it’s no completed, she seems like a hypocrite

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