To think school shouldn’t insist that everyone wears a poppy and donates £1

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It’s supposedly in a deprived area too - there are constant reminders of the high percentage of pupils with PP.

Also, I don’t think a school should insist everyone wears a poppy - or AIBU?

I am properly laughing at pineapple

In any event, about the poppies, I am neutral. What I don’t like is yet another £1 being demanded by the school.

It’s ‘fascist’ dear.

I bet Hitler said that a few times too.

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why wouldn’t you want to honour the fallen

That doesn’t have to mean wearing a poppy.

why wouldn’t you want to honour the fallen. without a poppy do you mean @PineappleLumps?

Largely because of people like you.

Oh shut up pineapplelumps, you wally.

PineappleLumps would LOVE my DS1, his school tried this when he was in Y1. He made a supply of dinner-plate sized white poppies and distributed them in the playground, proselytising loudly about peace and the evils of glorifying war. And no, we didn't put him up to it. He has ASD and strong opinions and is a law unto himself

I honestly think that the poppy appeal is becoming more and more irrelevant to people as the veterans (and the civilians who lived through the wars) die out. Obviously it's more likely to remain of interest to people who are in the military themselves, and their families.
We no longer think much about the deaths of the Light Brigade, for instance, which was only 60 years before WWI. But many people nowadays see other charities as more important - and the way the nationalists and rightwing tosspots are crawling all over the poppy policing these days makes me hope the whole thing fades out sooner rather than later.

@havingtochangeusernameagain Help 4 Heroes only provides support/aid to those Servicemen who have been injured in Iraq or Afghanistan. For that reason many Military personnel (myself included) don't support or donate to them.

The RBL will provide support to serving military, ex Military and the families of serving and ex military, including the families of the fallen. They make more charitable donations than any of the others, and for more diverse reasons. That's one of the reasons I make a regular donation - they helped me once (not with money but with a service) and I like to repay my debts

I think I love your son, @pigeononthegate.

@PineappleLumps I'll post this again:

A spokesperson for the Royal British Legion says the poppy "honours all those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the freedoms we enjoy today, and so the decision to wear it must be a matter of personal choice. If the poppy became compulsory it would lose its meaning and significance. We are thankful for every poppy worn, but we never insist upon it, to do so would be contrary to the spirit of Remembrance and all that the poppy stands for."

He made a supply of dinner-plate sized white poppies and distributed them in the playground, proselytising loudly about peace and the evils of glorifying war

In Year 1? Yeah, right

Yup, in Y1. Aged 6. Do you know many 6yo Aspies?

Yes. Lots. I work in the SEN unit in a sink estate primary school. Why?

Dallas, can you just be aware of language please? That really is quite offensive

“ If you don’t like our traditions why are you here?”
Oh that’s easy. I’m here to claim my 6 bedroom house and car, impose Sharia law and destroy western civilisation from within. Glad you asked.

Because it's a little odd to accuse me of lying about something that isn't particularly implausible if you have any experience of high-functioning autism. Aged 6, my DS1 did exactly what I described. Also: passed Y6 SATS papers (and was bullied for it by Y6 kids who were told by an insensitive idiot of a teacher that he "beat" them), ate handfuls of mud and grass, memorised the entire highway code and London Underground map, designed an integrated transport network for our town and sent it to the local council, couldn't do up toggles, had to be carried out of the dining hall screaming and thrashing because he was made to eat a pasty with a knife and fork....such is the weird and wonderful world of splinter skills and impairments of a child at the higher-functioning end of the spectrum.

I'm an early years teacher and worked as a TA with kids with ASD for many years before that, so I find it strange that you sneered at my anecdote.

Apols for the derail. Bowing out now.

Shame you struggle so hard with people not obeying yours derxa.

You don't even speak on behalf of the British people who wear poppies pineapple.

I hate the use of the word “selling” poppies. Its a donation. They are cheeky in putting a suggested donation on the items they send to school though.

Bloody forriners, coming over here and not wearing our poppies

Plenty of disrespectful fuckers wear poppies too. Remembrance is more than just a paper token.

Pineapple pretty sure my lovely grandad would suggest you give your head a wobble dear.

Not cool, exltevedallas, not cool at all.

I don’t care what culture your from, in this country we wear a poppy and Remember the fallen. If you don’t like it feel free to not be here!

No we don't. We have a choice whether or not to,wear a,poppy.

I'll let my GP father know that neither him (Czech) or my gynaecologist mother (German) should have been allowed to stay in this country and save your lives.