Schools allowing kids to "identify as horses, dinosaurs and cats" as pupils "communicate with animal noises"

Schools are increasingly being caught between a rock and a hard place over pupils identifying as animals and inanimate objects.

Pupils and teachers alike are aware that such self-identification can cause disruption, yet many do not voice their concerns for fear of being cancelled.

Secondary school children are being allowed to identify as cats, horses, dinosaurs and, in one instance, a moon, according to the Telegraph.

In some reported instances, classes have faced severe disruption as pupils insist on answering teacher’s questions and communicating via animal noises...

In its investigation, The Telegraph claimed it was “not difficult to find genuine examples of children in UK schools insisting on being addressed as animals.”

The publication found one pupil at a secondary school in South West who insisted “on being addressed as a dinosaur,” while another wears a cape and identifies as the moon.

In a particularly disruptive case, the newspaper spoke to a student in Wales who claimed a classmate had identified as a cat for three years.

The pupil complained: “When they answer questions, they meow rather than answer a question in English.

“And the teachers are not allowed to get annoyed about this because it’s seen as discriminating.”

“It’s affecting other people and their education and everybody in their lessons. It’s distracting to sit in a lesson and have someone meow to a teacher rather than answer in English, especially at secondary school age.”