American teacher claims she was fired for not acknowledging student's cat identity

[ScornfulScone]

Okay the source of this article is not exactly a "verified" news outlet so let's take this with a pinch of salt...

A substitute teacher in the US claims that she was fired by her school because she didn't meow back at a student who identifies as a cat.

Read more and watch the teacher's allegations on https://thepostmillennial.com/teacher-al...tudent-cat.

Should the teacher have simply played along with the boy's identity? Was the school too paranoid about negative PR? Does a boy have the right to identify as a cat? Does the boy have the right to impose his identity on everyone else?

This is such a weird news story but I'm interested to read what you guys think.

[Kurihara]

Okay the source of this article is not exactly a "verified" news outlet so let's take this with a pinch of salt...

A substitute teacher in the US claims that she was fired by her school because she didn't meow back at a student who identifies as a cat.

Read more and watch the teacher's allegations on https://thepostmillennial.com/teacher-al...tudent-cat.

Should the teacher have simply played along with the boy's identity? Was the school too paranoid about negative PR? Does a boy have the right to identify as a cat? Does the boy have the right to impose his identity on everyone else?

This is such a weird news story but I'm interested to read what you guys think.

Oh wow that's a weird story. 

I mean, I support recognising people by what they identify as. But then again, I had a primary school classmate who thought she was a cat too. I guess it was somewhat cute but that was also before social media and the so-called "cancel culture", so everyone just thought she was being quirky.

If this story took place ten years ago, I don't think the teacher would've gotten into any trouble at all. I guess this says more about the kind of culture we're in rather than the people involved in your news article.

[vince95]

Okay the source of this article is not exactly a "verified" news outlet so let's take this with a pinch of salt...

A substitute teacher in the US claims that she was fired by her school because she didn't meow back at a student who identifies as a cat.

Read more and watch the teacher's allegations on https://thepostmillennial.com/teacher-al...tudent-cat.

Should the teacher have simply played along with the boy's identity? Was the school too paranoid about negative PR? Does a boy have the right to identify as a cat? Does the boy have the right to impose his identity on everyone else?

This is such a weird news story but I'm interested to read what you guys think.

Oh wow that's a weird story. 

I mean, I support recognising people by what they identify as. But then again, I had a primary school classmate who thought she was a cat too. I guess it was somewhat cute but that was also before social media and the so-called "cancel culture", so everyone just thought she was being quirky.

If this story took place ten years ago, I don't think the teacher would've gotten into any trouble at all. I guess this says more about the kind of culture we're in rather than the people involved in your news article.

yeah your last line is so true. sometimes talking to new people is like walking on eggshells, too easy to offend someone and get reported somewhere on the internet nowadays.

[monstafish]

haha if this happen to my primary school teachers, the little 'cat' will go home with red marks on its paw

[ScornfulScone]

Oh it's okay, problem solved.

[kxingstar]

This makes me wonder: how should parents react if your child insists that he or she is a cat?