Is There Any Good Reason Why This Schoolgirl Shouldn't...

[sandyRoe]

... wear her poppy?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/girl-detention-poppy-school/

 

[Old_Geezer]

Probably not part of the official uniform.

[Canary42]

No reason at all - typical of the narrow-minded teaching profession these days.

[jno]

"the pins could be used to stab people". Well, it's a violent world. I remember the assassin in Grosse Pointe Blank killed the president of Paraguay with a fork, and of course shoes are potential bombs even when you're not on a plane.

[barry1010]

Has it been verified? I don't take what is said on TikTok as fact.

[newmodarmy]

I'm always wary of stories involving schools when parents go on TikTok or social media or go off to the press with a compo face picture to attack the school and give one side of a story, especially when the story changes- "it was a detention, it wasn't a detention but her name was on the board". The parent's writtent communication gives the impression she didn't pay much attention at school.

If poppies have been banned, that's sad. But we don't know what issues there had been with pins or what rules had been issued. Schools sometimes overact but on the whole are just applying the school rules- rules that if the parent or child don't like they should either raise it through the governors or they should change school.

[rockyracoon]

Doesn't sound like the poppy was banned, just the pin. Maybe the school has had issues in the past and safeguarding kicked in, as it should. Imagine the uproar if a child was deliberately poked in the eye etc, there would be another mother ranting in TikTok.