Juice in school

You are not wrong but I'd just use another bottle to stop her getting grief about her drink

Again, I was responding to the comment about juice. The PPs did not say anything about squash not having health benefits. She said JUICE does not have any health benefits. The lack of reading comprehension on MN is quite worrying.

Yeah to be fair i agree with this. I do think the teacher has been very fair but the replies have been awful.

I agree with you. I get my youngest flavoured water as she isn't a fan of water. My eldest is fine with water but she tells me that although your "allowed" juice at lunch your not allowed your water bottle in class unless it only has water. It is a ridiculous rule. I sometimes give eldest juice if she wants as her bottle isn't clear so they can't see what's in it.

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But this kid isn't even being made to follow the rules. It has been questioned, the reasons explained and an extremely reasonable compromise offered.

He's offering a compromise - probably because he has assessed you to be a PITA. Your daughter can have unhealthy juice, to shut you up, but in a way least likely to influence the other children, who have been brought up to drink healthy water and follow school rules. Her teeth may not stay perfect, if she continues to have juice available, throughout the day, as time goes on.

Exactly this. I was a water hater, hated having to queue at break or lumchtime for the one drinking fountain (well one for girls and one for boys as they were in the toilet blocks). But if I was thirsty I'd do it!

Yes i think thats fair, and tbh I personally would just get a new bottle that isnt clear and be done with it.

Yes, lets just all follow blindly the rules set out and never ever question why they are put in place.

I get this but in school, this teacher is making it a bit easier for the child and other kids!!

Because parents have made choices based on their opinions and what they feel is best for their own children.
I dont allow my kids to have fizzy juice, my best friends kids do, my kids dont have phones yet, their friends do, my kids train 21 hours a week in their sport, others would think thats outrageous.

I really don't understand your problem here.
Just put it in an opaque bottle and that's the end of it.
You are lucky they aren't enforcing the water only rule and letting her have the juice.
Sipping on juice all day is not good for teeth. Just because your child's teeth are perfect now doesn't mean that they will stay like that.

Or, just, follow the rules the school sets out?

I don’t agree!
Other kids may prefer juice too and wonder why one is allowed it so to prevent arguments she just needs a bottle that isn’t clear!

They’re kids… they are still learning!!

@Catza It's squash not juice

Get a grip!
The teacher is allowing you to let your daughter bring juice as she won’t drink water. However he is saying hide it as others will find this unfair. What is the problem! They have rules and they’re being lenient with them
for you. Change the bottle and stop causing a drama for your child

OMG this thread is outrageous.

Why do parents assume their children are entitled to what others are having, if you have decided your child is to have water that's absolutely fine, JUST like its fine for another child to have juice.

If your child is upset by that then tell them to get a grip, life is going to be hard enough without everyone pandering to their every desire and self entitlement.

You are presenting me with a strawman argument. Nowhere did I say that juice should be the only liquid. I am responding to PP's assertive statement that juice has no health benefits which is ridiculous on a common sense level even without having to pull empirical evidence to the contrary.

@Fubar01 are you a black or white kind of person? Does everything fall into right or wrong? It comes across that way.

Do you really want this to be your hill to die on?

I personally believe the teacher is trying to accommodate your DC's drinking habits and ensure they stay hydrated, without actively promoting it to the rest of the class.

Squash is not allowed at my DC's school - they don't, however, check all the DC's water bottles so it isn't rigidly enforced. Parents who have similar issues to you use flavoured water.

If you want to make an issue of this teacher being 'deceptive' then they will have to bring in more draconian rules for the entire cohort.

When do you intend to teach your DC nuance and subtlety and how (and when) to pick your battles?

Buy the opaque bottle or get DC to drink water.

Squash sends our DD up the walls, but she absolutely loves it. We don't have it in the house as she can't control herself when we do, she is proper addicted to it. The final straw was a whole bottle of 4x strength (hate that stuff) gone in two days, so we stopped it in the house but she can have it when she is out/at a friends/grandma's house.

The school rule is water in bottles only, last term i had a call from them saying DD was drinking out of other kids water bottles, I knew straight away that it would be the ones with squash in and I was right.

Whilst i had a word with DD about taking others things, I could not tell her off as actually, if the other parents weren't breaking the rules, it wouldn't have happened.

Exactly. How can human beings not drink water?

FFS just follow the school rules.

That's why we have bottled water. The tap water tastes awful. I tried to get on with a filter jug but still tasted bad.

We've always been a water family, and then it turned out I have intolerances to artificial sweeteners (which were not as prevalent when I was a kid, I basically live on water these days because I can't be bothered figuring out an alternative to have it taken away by a recipe change). But when I moved to a new area I had to switch to bottled.

You're right. A little bit of actual juice is fine. Too much is bad for your teeth, and also, by juicing the fruit, you throw away a lot of the fibre and other stuff that's good for you in fruit