The long read: Over the past 20 years, the symbol of remembrance for the war dead has become increasingly ubiquitous – and a culture of poppy policing has grown with it
Worked in a school where the head refused to employ any of the candidates who turned up for interview because none of them wore a poppy (and one of them wore tan-coloured shoes that hadn’t been polished, too!) Some of the candidates were perfectly suitable and the school needed to fill the post to help reduce workload on the rest of us.
My girlfriend is a teacher and due to the stories that I’ve heard I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of teachers and particularly head teachers, are total lunatics.
Worked in a school where the head refused to employ any of the candidates who turned up for interview because none of them wore a poppy (and one of them wore tan-coloured shoes that hadn’t been polished, too!) Some of the candidates were perfectly suitable and the school needed to fill the post to help reduce workload on the rest of us.
I hope this was a private school. The idea that the state system would be so insanely discriminatory is insane.
My girlfriend is a teacher and due to the stories that I’ve heard I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of teachers and particularly head teachers, are total lunatics.