To ask what you think to this school new rule?

I suspect we will never know!

I wonder if it was all hearsay (Bull 💩)

Interesting how we have a whole thread with lots of people getting upset about something which probably isn't even true. Sounds like a rumour started by some kid telling his parent he wasn't allowed to go to the water fountain at a particular time. Op never actually got anything from the school about it, did they?

Interesting how teachers think they are the medical experts instead of following the advice of medical experts.
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This is a good thing! My cousin is a teacher and she's part of the school production. The main worry the children have is what happens of they get thirsty. These are 11 and 12 year olds. She said if they can't go without a drink for an hour then they probably need to be seeing a Dr!

I do wonder how we in the 50s survived when we only had access to water during breaks and lunchtime. And as we had to drink from our hands in the toilets during breaks we didn't tend to drink much. So milk at morning break and water with lunch was all we had. And no, there were very few toileting accidents. I do remember one in Infants class.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the Op came back and actually let us know if this new school rule was a real rule or just a rumour spread by a few parents with the wrong end of the stick?

This is a very bad advice though. Is bad for girls (not sure about boys?) to wee "just in case" as it lasts too an oversensitive bladder in future. What it does is that the brains starts sending signals to the brain before the bladder is full and as a result we need to go more often.
I recently went on an NHS training abut incontinence and this was the first thing they mentioned. The room was also full of young women, while I expected there to be mostly older people.

I'm eighty I don't recall having access to fluids during lessons. We had milk then access to water fountains during playtime . I don't recall lines of thirsty children queuing for water then either. Who supervises the need for water in lessons . How often are the lessons interrupted how many children then need toilet trips. I think it's a learned distraction when children" need a drink" then others follow on...school is for learning, children are learning to wait until break for fluids. Unless there are obvious medical requirements of course.

This, to a certain extent.
Being properly hydrared does affect conservation/performance but it's perfectly possible to be hydrated without having constant access to a water bottle.

Turning to sarcasm because you have nothing else.

You know the word 'force' has a variety of meanings due to context?
The impact of not being able to use the toilet compels kids to not drink enough.

How do you ‘force a child not to drink’?

Luckily, my school doesn’t insist on everything being put on desks before starting lessons, but it’s good to see you want your bottle on your desk to fiddle with eh?

the obsession with carrying a water bottle around makes me probably unreasonably irritated. Our medical students carry them round the ward when they are shadowing so they get forgotten and tripped up on as no where to put them - it’s a clinical space and your kidneys will survive, and adjusting to different levels is actually their purpose as the older renal doctors like to say. I have primary aged children and I can imagine them getting their bottles in and out, flipping and fiddling with them is annoying; they have plenty of breaks to use them. My kids don’t carry a water bottle around the house and mainly choose to drink at meal time or get a cup when they are thirsty

Do private schools have all these problems with water bottles?

Please try and read what was written.

You’re the one bleating on about children’s mental health, increased absences and the failing education system… on a thread about water bottles 😂

Apparently not.

Unless they have a medical condition or perhaps the two weeks it’s close to 30 degrees, having a drink before school, at break and at lunchtime is fine. Water bottles weren’t a thing until 20 years ago, we all were fine with a drinking fountain at break and panda pops at lunch, mmm cherryade I work in a shop and don’t have a drink except on my scheduled breaks, absolutely fine

Better than you it seems!

Can you read and comprehend?

No-one is forcing kids not to drink. Are you a Daily Mail journalist in your spare time? 😂You are very outraged!

Telling children they can have a drink before and after lessons and at break and lunch, but not in lessons, is not forcing kids not to drink.
Telling a child they can’t drink from the second they walk in the gates at 8.30am until they leave at 3.30pm, well then I might agree with you.

Literally NO school bans drinking all day.

Yes i'm in a lot of schools. Reduced access to toilets is a massive issue - actually forcing kids to not drink because they can't use a toilet. With the highest levels of ill health, absence and poor mental health in kids trust me, water bottles are the very least of the problems. The ed system has been slowly deteriorating for years, increased funding and putting kids wellbeing front and centre would be a good start.

No one has mentioned that stupid pursuit where kids flip the bottle and try to make it land upright.

They get so engrossed in it, as though it’s an incredibly visually exciting, high-stakes adventure.