To ask what you think to this school new rule?

Jayden, why are you ten minutes late to a 50-minute lesson?

I just came from PE and I “had to” fill my water bottle and there was a queue.

But it’s 2.25. The school day finished at 3.10. Couldn’t it wait til then.

I need to have my water bottle filled at all times.

Imagine having this conversation thirty times a week and then being disrupted by having to catch the water-bottle kids up with the section of the lesson they just missed (avoided). Awful.

I am happy to be that "one".

If they had access to the toilet at anytime there wouldn’t be any children in the classroom! Biggest excuse for work avoidance.

Like anything it depends on what problem they are facing.

Is water consumption being used to interfere with teaching, are certain children gathering. Is there a bullying issue, is where the water is accessed difficult to monitor. Are children interfering with others water or bringing in contraband that puts others with allergies at risk, is poor behaviour an issue, are some children targeting others? Then is there a toilet issue again interfering with teaching, an issue with bullying or damage across school. Is there a safeguarding issue? Is there child on child abuse. Water fights or situations that build to other issues, vaping?

When you introduce a new rule or change something it is in response to an issue. We need more information

You’re wrong here I’m afraid. The strict academy rules actually mean that some teaching and learning can get done, and whilst students might bristle against it all surveys show that on the whole students feel safer and happier in schools like that.

When I went to school (admittedly decades ago) we didn't have waterbottles. We had a drink at breakfast, a drink at lunch and a drink when we got home.

Loo breaks at midmorning and lunchtime. No one batted an eyelid. It never even came up.

À maximum of 2 hours without a drink is hardly a hardship. We don't need hydration all day every day. It'll do them good to realise they can have what they want all the time.

I’m not particularly worked up about banning water bottles. As long as there are opportunities to drink they’ll be fine.

I do think the increase in rules (academy style) is causing the increase in poor behaviour that we keep reading about. If you treat children like oiks they’ll behave like it. The increase in academies and their ridiculous rules has not seen a corresponding decrease in poor behaviour, rather the opposite.

Makes sense to me.
Im not one for school rules, but if they are having loads of accidents and children drinking excessive amounts of water then I can see why they are doing it.
The kids are not going to be gasping for water after lunch, its literally an hour or so then home.
It was unheard of to be allowed to drink water in class egen ai was at school in the 80s and 90s and I domt think any children died of thirst. They will be fine.

The other unpopular thing to point out is how many kids have unnecessary dental caries because they won't drink plain water and the constant exposure to sugar is damaging.

At the moment, you appear to be going on hearsay or gossip. Wait until you hear the facts.

However, water bottles are a pita at school. Our children suck on them like baby bottles, spill their water constantly from playing with them (generally ruining their partner’s book), use it as an excuse to opt out of learning, then another excuse because they need to use the toilet, leave them out on the field/playground (thereby wasting more time going to get them after break or lunch), waste more lesson time going to refill the bottle….etc etc.

YABU to say they're reducing "the amount of water" the kids can have. There's nothing to stop the kids downing glass after glass of water all break and all lunchtime. They'll just be asked not to drink during lessons. Whether that's a good or a bad idea is up for discussion, but don't start by misrepresenting the policy.

It's like 2 hours max without a drink. My kids have a glass of ester at home, they arent sipping consatnstantly.

I'm sure the reason is because some kids are drinking in way that leads to disruption so, much like holiday time off, a blanket rule has been applied which isn't fair to the kids who will want the odd sip in lessons.

At most there may some tempporary minor discomfort and its such a non issue that I'm surprised anyone has time to really worry about it (not a dig at op, just an eyerolp about how many parents, probably mums, will want to make a fuss)

Stupid. The kids who are peeing to get out of lessons will still pretend to want to pee, and the kids that try to control their drinking so they don't need to pee will get dehydrated!

Why are children getting up to get their water bottles? At my DD’s school, they are always on the desks.

I missed weeks of school as a young child from heat exhaustion and dehydration. We lived in a warm climate, had no air conditioning, and weren’t allowed water bottles. I would get so sick I would vomit. No, I wasn’t a particularly healthy child.

I am very pro water bottles. If children are thirsty, they should be allowed to drink.

I think you’re wasting your time about some thing ehich probably isn’t true.

I do think the constant carrying of water bottles is a bit barking, outside of v hot weather. If the little kids are having accidents because they can’t regulate how much they drink, then the school does need to take it in hand.

Unless the school tells you the reasons it is enforcing a rule, you don’t know why it is being done. There are plenty of valid reasons for this. Despite what some parents are determined to believe, teachers are aware that children can’t learn if they are thirsty or desperate to wee, and they are quite capable of making sure their class has enough access to basic things they need.

That myth was debunked along with Brain Gym and learning styles over a decade ago,

I work in a school and we’ve had to bring in this rule this year. It’s only been an issue in the last few years with the rise of ‘trendy’ water bottles. Essentially every lesson teachers were getting 5+ requests to fill up their water bottles. Students wandering up and down corridors in lessons, distracting others. The lesson itself is disrupted. Now they can fill up their bottles in the time between lessons or break time.
it’s a behaviour management thing.
obviously if a child has a headache/coughing fit then they can go get water - but really, children don’t need to drink throughout lessons. I certainly didn’t when I was at school.

There’s always one …

Kids managed for years without water bottles in class at all and survived.

Came on to say this. We didn’t have water bottles, you got a drink at break and lunch time. Nobody died (and actually I can’t remember a constant stream - sorry - of kids asking to go to the toilets in class either, we just waited for break time).

We had a water fountain at primary school and we were only allowed to use it at breaks or at lunch. No-one died from dehydration. Nobody moaned about being dehydration. And we all left primary school able to read, write and do arithmetic. Nowadays some kids are leaving secondary school barely able to speak coherently.

I bet you only drank water from the garden hose! 🙄🤣