To create a fuss about my son not having access to water today in school

Agree . I guess it’s the bottled water manufacturers.

He was being disruptive with his water bottle. Support the teacher and tell precious one not to be annoying to other students.

That still doesn’t mean you have to intake water in a continuous all day stream. I don’t know where this idea that you have to be constantly taking little sips has come from, it’s not necessary and it seems to cause people so much anxiety. Drinking a decent amount in one go will happily carry you over till the next drink two or three hours later. (And I used to live somewhere where the temperature reached forty degrees).

I have kidney problems but the only allowances I ever needed at school 80’s & 90’s was being allowed to go to the toilet when needed, I drank plenty of fluids before/after school and at lunch & breaks - never during lessons!!!

My DC don’t take a water bottle to school at all. They have a juice box at lunch usually.

They have never asked to or been required to take a water bottle or have one on their desks.

Mmm, the milk in the summer was not so good but when it was ice-cold, it was fantastic!

Yes , I agree, other than the luke warm milk we had to drink at break the teacher didn’t hand out drinks to us !

Oh yuk yes ! And in the winter when it was cold outside at my school they used to put the crate on top of a warm boiler thing to warm it 🤢 I have always loved really cold milk!

Are you sure?

Didn't even come from the teacher, we had water fountains to use at breaks and jugs fofwater in the dinner hall. Nobody had drinks, be they from a fountain, beaker or bottle during class. We all lived and class didn't get disrupted. Nothing to do with martyrdom.

Yes, exactly, thank you. It's so nice when a response is read accurately, instead of the responder reading it as what they think it should be.

I'm sure that if my mother had been told that she had to provide a water bottle for use at school, she would have done so and she would have told me to jolly well make sure that I used it at the specified times and refilled it, if necessary.

She certainly wouldn't have said, 'Here, darling, glug on this all day long and then demand the loo constantly.'

I, too, have been that teacher who has had to deal with a barrage of, 'Please miss, can I refill my bottle?' and 'Please miss, can I go to the toilet?' (Maybe, if they had spent a little longer in class, they would know it's 'May I ...?') It's infuriating.

Are you joking?! It was nearly 30 degrees today!

My 9 year olds teacher makes them keep their pencil cases in their school bags. They only have a pencil, a rubber and a sharpener on their desks. This is due to constant opening and closing of the case, distracting other kids.
The same child had a teacher that didn’t want them having water bottles on their desks, big drinks at specific times and put the water away. Obviously if someone is thirsty you can have some.
Same as going to the bathroom, they all survived. My son was under the care of a urologist at the time and I mentioned it to the teacher, she let him go when he wanted as he wasn’t messing.
Your child will be fine.

There is a massive difference between being told to put his bottle away and being denied a drink all day.
My class keep their bottles in a box. They can have drinks when we come in or out of the classroom or during movement breaks. As yet no one had died of thirst. I still get parents complaining that I have refused their child a drink all day.

But the poster is saying they drank at set times, not all day long in lessons. Nothing to do with who provided it.

Yes I used to volunteer to collect for our class. Tip one down the drain and pretend to be finishing it of as I headed back into the class. Mind you I still don't drink milk on its own years later

The teacher is reasonable to tell your son to leave his bottle further away as he’s prone to fiddling with it. If he concentrates more then it’s a good thing.

If he only had a few sips at lunchtime then I’m guessing that he wasn’t very thirsty ? Is like more annoyed about the “unfairness” of it rather than the thirst angle ?

Her questioning him the day after you went in is very unprofessional and could be a form of bullying because it could make him less likely to tell you stuff in future which isn’t good.

Yes, you were given drinks from the school. Now they take their own. It’s the same thing but coming from their own bottle and not the teacher. You were not a martyr depriving yourself of liquid all day! You just didn’t take your own because it was a different process back then. But some people love a “back in my day reply” don’t they 🙈

In the 11 years I was at school, I wasn’t allowed to have any sort of drinks in lessons. We went to the water fountains at breaks.

Completely agree. I teach secondary and spend all day listening to kids scrunch their plastic water bottles to make as much noise as possible. The kids literally suck on them all day long, and are outraged if it's suggested they might put it down for a moment to listen to an instruction. They're a huge, huge distraction. Then, of course, because they've drunk water all day, they need the toilet ... and we all know the controversy surrounding toilet access in secondary schools.

I went to school all the way to 2005 without the constant need to suck water all day long. I was about to say that wasn't even that long ago, but actually it is 😳!

😂 I mean, it’s a thing. All kids take a water bottle to school. It’s not ridiculous really, just to save the teachers having to keep getting water. Do you think it’s ridiculous that we need to hydrate? Or just that they have to bring their own water?

That did make me laugh!

No, neither did we. We had water or juice before we left home and then at 8.45/9am at school. Again at 10.30am. Again with lunch at 12.30/1pm and again, just before we were due to go home, if we had an aftershool club to stay on for.

None of us collapsed, prostrate upon the ground. This current fad for constant hydration has become ridiculous. (Who are we - the Lady Cassandra?) Four decent tumblers of water during the day at school and then more when you get home is quite enough, unless you want your children to spend all day asking for the loo.

A lot of primary schools are weirdly obsessed with getting kids to glug absurd amounts of water (I know, I’ve taught in them). Loads of primaries allow kids to keep water bottles on their desks all year round. Whole generations of children are growing up to believe there’ll be dire consequences for their health unless they’re glugging from a water bottle all the bloody time. I think all this bullshit started about 25 years ago when Brain Gym had its moment in the sun, as drinking stupid amounts of water was a key part of the pseudo-scientific Brain Gym philosophy. Brain Gym and it’s ridiculous claims seem to have disappeared from primary schools but it’s water obsession sadly has not.

Too orangey for crows…

I actually loved it. I hated tap water and preferred the milk. I was gasping for a drink at the end of the day and teacher would always offer out the spares, room temperature having been left out all day in the classroom. Beautiful creamy milky joy! I still love a glass of milk now!