This is a difficult one as the short item in Monday's Daily Telegraph made out. Poppies should be worn from 1st November and not as a political and otherwise meaningless statement by politicos etc.
In today's DT was a plea that poppies be worn only in the week preceding Remembrance Day.
I wonder exactly what the teacher said and equally how the pupil responded. Was it overbearing arogance and sweetness and light, or vica versa?
I do know however that the teachers Mrs W has observed treat their grammar school pupils with disdain. I can imagine that it was a confrontational situation.