Do we stop wearing coats in high school?

Mine took to thermal long sleeve vests and leggings / tights in the depths of winter. Otherwise no coat, gloves, scarf, boots required even when it snows. Mad but they were happy.

I’m sure must parents are glad it’s no coats if Canadians Goose was the only option. To expensive to get list in the bus if nicked.

My friend's DC attend an academy where they do have lockers - you provide the padlock. Hardly anyone uses them with combination of a faff - as year groups have their lockers in an area of the school. Year 7s between science and design. Year 8s, by languages etc. Plus the one way system.

I do hope your DC's schools allow to wear vests/base layers under shirts. Plus the girls can wear thicker denier tights or legging under trousers.

No cloakrooms, no lockers - all spare space now used for classrooms! At one point i understand they had “away” team changing rooms; now they must have at least 20 portakabins making up office and classroom numbers.

My DC ‘s high school has nowhere to leave coats. DS has a big ski jacket type thing which he used to wear over his blazer - it’s very wide on him anyway, to get it long enough. He didn’t mind carrying it, but i think he used to sneak it into the music store (he was well in with the music dept). DD wears her PE hoody and a waterproof that she can squash in her bag. And a baselayer! Anything not to wear an actual coat.

Nope, no cloakroom here! You’d be lucky to get a locker that hasn’t had its door kicked in !

I worked in a a school, a parent once complained that there was no coat option as part of the uniform. It was pointed out to them that there was indeed a coat, but not one pupil ever wore one. I worked there for nearly 10 years, never saw one !
They used to wear huge scarves in the winter, maybe the odd umbrella. Just not cool apparently!

I think it’s very school dependent. At my children’s school, most of the kids wear coats once it gets colder. They have lockers so that saves them carrying their coat around.

I remember not wearing a coat for most of secondary school. I’m not sure why it was uncool to wear one though!! 🤣

Hoodies under blazers and no coat.
Hood goes up if it's raining.
It's frustrating but it is what it is.

How things have changed. Nearly everybody had coats when I was at school. But then we had coat racks and once in 5th year upwards we all had lockers. Never heard of anyone having a coat go missing.

Same here, blazers should be banned in school and I’m very pro uniform.
they sre not fit for purpose, too hot in summer, too cold in winter, coats are uncomfortable to wear with them, restrictive and ridiculous.
But yes I hardly see any secondary kids in coats anymore.

No cloakrooms , no lockers. I doubt if expensive coats would still be there at the end of the day. However, there is always a reasonable collection of coats in lost property at the end of each term.

DS1 didn't have to wear a blazer and had a locker. He would wear a coat and shove it in his locker.

DS2 has to wear a blazer and doesn't have a locker or cloakroom. He has a thin raincoat scrunched up in his bag but would only wear it if it was absolutely chucking it down. And then it gets shoved in his bag and makes everything in there wet. If there is frost on the ground I force him to leave the house in a coat, but not convinced it stays on once he's made it round the corner out of sight.

It’s awful that schools don’t have cloakrooms any more — at my school there was a cloakroom per year by the loos, with kind of gates across that were locked during the day so you could leave your coat and collect it at the end of the school day.

Well, weather must be worse around here than where you all are because children I see in secondary schools do wear a coat or rain jacket over their blazers. Maybe it depends on how much time they have to spend outside either on the way or on site or they have better locker facilities, who knows!

Eldest never wore a coat to secondary school - large site, lockers miles away etc. Changed to a new school in y9 where they had to wear blazers, so no coat there either. Youngest went to a different school with a split site - both sites pretty compact and they mostly stayed at one depending on the year they were in. Wore a coat until blazers were introduced in year 10. Much more of a rule follower than eldest too.

But regardless, teens A don't like to conform and B dont feel the cold!

I mean we wore maxi coats, midi coats, whatever, over our school uniforms . . . . back in the Jurassic era.

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Don't they have any school cloakrooms any longer? That is where we hung up ours, back in the 1970's!

Two camps here (big NW town)

Girls: mainly no coat, unless absolutely freezing, then cropped black puffer, any brand will do, New Look, H&M etc, coat immediately discarded as soon as it is slightly less freezing.

Boys: Mad expensive massive great black puffer, has to be prised off them around Easter.

My year 10 will wear a coat, but my god, it absolutely HAS to be the right coat.

Your best bet is a water resistant down jacket that can be squashed into a bag.

Yep, absolutely no coats at all. Mine WILL NOT wear anything renitely weatherproof.
In winter a pair of gloves and a school jumper get used but that's about it.

No coats here, occasionally I can make her wear a black waterproof if pouring but that’s only for while waiting for the bus and then it gets screwed up in her bag.

Home Counties here - mine wear coats but it’s cool to wear big puffers like North Face or Canada Goose. Every kid around here has a coat on.