Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has been accused of “grandstanding” after demanding Ofsted carries out a “snap inspection” at a school at the centre of a gender row.
Rye College in East Sussex has been under national scrutiny a recording went viral of a teacher branding a pupil “despicable” during an argument over identity.
The Department for Education launched an investigation into the secondary this week amid disputed reports the spat erupted after the 13-year-old rejected a classmate’s request to be identified as a cat.
However this is not clear from the recording. And in a statement to Schools Week yesterday, the trust said it wanted to “clarify that no children at Rye College identifies as a cat or any other animal”.
