Juice in school

Doesn’t shock me in the slightest. I know of a school who had to remove the entrance doors to the toilets because of all the alcohol and weed smoking going on in there. Can’t expel the kids so everyone has to suffer. Teachers losing their lunch breaks to be on constant patrol. Letting them have juice in primary is the least of the worries.

Adding a slice of lemon, cucumber, or tiny amount of salt to your tap water can easily sort out any electrolyte imbalance.

Dosing it with squash may provide a small amount of electrolytes but the cost is a high dose of sugar.

or juice

That's nonsense. You get minerals and electrolytes from food.

God no wonder teachers are leaving in droves!

You are extremely naive if you think pigheaded parents are even on the radar of why teachers are leaving in droves. SLT making pedantic rules and leaving boots-on-ground teachers and TAs doesn’t help, but teaching is in crisis for much bigger reasons. There will always be parents who seem ‘difficult’ but don’t undermine the actual hell the education system is in because of water bottle arguments. It doesn’t even register compared to the real issues being swept under the carpet.

It sounds like the teacher has tried to be kind and rightly or wrongly make an exception for your daughter - based on what you have told them about her not drinking water. It’s pretty shitty of you to then make fuss as thanks. It’s not clear from your posts if your daughter doesn’t drink water due to SEN or just questionable parenting - but either way surely you can frame it in an age appropriate way for her level of understanding - or give her water! She may be sporty but over 1/3 of kids are overweight when they finish primary school and nearly 2/3 of adults. Sugary drinks are a huge cause of this and make up over 1/4 the total calories for teenagers diets. You can undermine the rules for your own daughter but they’re perfectly reasonable not to want you to undermine them for all the other kids.

You think energy drinks are bad, DD told me kids are bringing alcohol in reusable water bottles at her school!

+1000.

OP’s quote - it’s not about the juice , it’s about a teacher teaching my child it’s okay to bend rules as long as no one knows about it . She is an anxious child and she doesn’t want to be doing something she shouldn’t do 🥂. It has never been an issue before but this year it seems to be a problem.
So instead you tell your child it’s ok to bend the rules in plain sight? Your child doesn’t want to do something she shouldn’t do? Yet she takes juice despite knowing she shouldn’t do this? Yeh I can see why she’s anxious tbh. 🤔

I'm a 70's child so I was mostly given milk. Tap water tastes 'metaly' to me. Bottled water is better.

My children's school has a blanket ban on juice, it's plain water only in water bottles. We've got around this by using flavoured water as my youngest two don't like plain water - the school are non the wiser.

No. YOU are teaching your child that it’s ok to bend rules by allowing her to have juice when the school have a water only rule. The teacher is trying to be flexible and sensible as you are adamant that your child will ONLY ever drink juice (unless there are SEN, she wont). So either accept the compromise the teacher is making, or die on this hill and always be known as “ that” parent. I will never understand people like you who are absolutely always looking for an issue when there isn’t one, so unnecessarily confrontational and expect everyone and everything to bend to your wants.

God no wonder teachers are leaving in droves!

But you’re making it everyone’s business by posting here 🤨
You’re making a mountain out of a molehill, you could probably start a fight in an empty room I think.

Are you having a laugh? You're blaming the teacher for teaching your child to 'bend the rules'. YOU are the problem, not the teacher! The teacher is compromising because if they didn't then people like you would kick up royal stink that their precious baby would instantly perish if only allowed water all day!

Jesus, this kinds of backwards thinking is painful to witness!

My tap water isn't good to drink. It lacks electrolytes and leaves me still thirsty

The no juice rule is pretty standard in primary. You may disagree with the rule, but it's a rule nonetheless. Also, stop worrying about what other parents can/ cannot get away with. The teacher is holding out a compromise to you. Take it graciously, get an opaque bottle and put juice in it. Schools are actually very good at working with parents, if the parents work with them. And I say this as the parent of an autistic daughter who has a hard time with quite a lot of things and who has to frequently work with the school to resolve various uniform related issues. If all I had to contend with was buying an opaque bottle to put juice in, I'd consider myself on Easy Street.

Possible silly question, but when you say juice do you mean actually mean, for example, orange juice freshly squeezed (or from concentrate) or cordial.

If the latter, and it's cordial, give her something like elderflower.

What do you want to happen? The rule to be changed or to be enforced. The rules sound quite lax if they're turning a blind eye to forbidden snacks, and juice.

I agree with others that it's not about sneakiness' but not wanting a whole class of children to spot it and start doing the same.

this exactly. send her with water.
if she doesn't drink it at school, she can drink it home. if water is the only option, she will drink it.

its really not that difficult, if she's gotten to the point where she won't she needs to be encouraged by removing the temptation

Most hilarious thing is, a huge amount of teens are sneaking in much worse drinks to secondary. I know a teacher who’s having a hell of a time banning energy drinks from his school. Beyond primary school these ‘my little darling will drink their water perfectly well’ are spending all their spare change chugging Monster and Prime on their way to school (awaits the ‘my kid would never’ comments…).

Because parents aren't bloody parenting!!

The shit choices that parents make cause physical harm to their children and end up costing the taxpayer £££ in dentist and medical bills!

This nation is fat and unhealthy!

Something has to give and prevention is imminently cheaper than cure!

Were you mostly given water to drink as a child?

YABU! You failed to get your child to drink water. I didn't. It's not fair that my child should feel like they are missing out. So get a suitable bottle or give them water. They aren't going to die of dehydration in 6 hours!

Quite frankly, you are lucky they allow it at all. Kicking up a fuss is a complete and utter waste of the teachers time. Do you have any idea the amount of nonsense they deal with in a day!

You’re not supposed to have fruit juice for every drink though. The same way you can’t have fruit for every meal. Water is the basic sustenance for life. It cleans your kidneys, hydrates your skin etc.

Do what you want. I don’t care, but you started the thread. Doctors recommend giving babies and young children water to drink. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/water-drinks-nutrition/

If you give your child water from birth then they will not think twice about drinking water. There’s nothing not to like about water.

I feel so sorry for teachers with parents trying to overrule them.
The teacher is agreeing to the juice as long as it is not in a clear bottle.
Has it not entered your mind that the reason you are being asked to do this is so that other children will not see the juice in the bottle! Every other child in the class will then be wanting to bring juice in instead of water.