What happened on 24th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web
On Saturday, Rye College has denied allegations that a pupil self-identified as a cat as the education secretary started an investigation into the claims . Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, confirmed the inquiry days after a video featuring an exchange between two 13-year-old girls and a teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, went viral. The teacher said that the pair were “despicable” for saying that gender should be linked to biological sex and told one of them she should “go to a different school” for rejecting the idea that a classmate could identify as a cat. Rye College said yesterday that it had met the Department for Education over the matter. It added that none of its pupils identified as cats or any other animal. Sir Desmond Swayne, the former Conservative minister, told the Commons: “Pupils have been denounced as despicable for failing to accept at the reality of a fellow pupil who identified as a cat. Can we have a debate on Confucius, for it was he who observ...