And yet another stupid school rule.

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DD 12 brought home a pink water bottle yesterday, I thought she'd brought home somebody else's, as she usually takes a bottle of Evian because she's forever losing them.

No, this is new required equipment, with the school logo, her name and form on. I'm just worried that she'll lose it and I'll have to pay for a replacement, and another, and another.

Well since it has her name and form on, it won't be quite so easy for her to lose it or for someone else to nick it

My DD's school has similar after a big thing to reduce waste, though no name on theirs, so what happens is as they get lost, they're all brought together so kids that lose them come and grab one with the right form colour lid which I guess helps or, more often, I find hers sitting on the table while she's at school like right now...

Much better for the environment than single use plastic. Our school stipulates re-useable water bottles but they can be any, not school logo.

DDs secondary school has recently started this. Instead of buying a drink in a bottle, they buy a token and fill their bottles from a filling point.

Seems quite a good idea - much better than taking in bottles of Evian every day and throwing away the bottles.

And your complaint is what, exactly, OP? This sounds like a great initiative on the part of the school to reduce single use plastic.

Have you been forced to pay for this one? Would it be an option to send her in with another (not school branded) reusable bottle if she loses this one (which she's less likely to do if it has her name on it)? Use this as a chance to get her to take more responsibility for her stuff.... and for you, use this as a chance to reduce your dependence on single use plastic.

This is actually a great idea. Better than 150ish Evian bottles in landfill every year per pupil.

That's a pita but given she's 12 she is old enough not to lose it and it can't be stolen with her name on

Wait a sec, did you get it for free? In which case not pita.

DCs' schools, both primary and secondary, no longer allow disposable water bottles. It's pretty standard now.

Great idea from the school imo

Perhaps if you don’t buy her a new one when she loses it it might teach her something?....kids will never learn to look after their stuff if you buy them a new one every time they lose it or break it.

This is one that I don't think is a stupid rule at all. The more we can cut down on single use water bottles the better. Every little helps and all that.

At 12, if she loses it, she could replace it out of her pocket money. That would focus her mind a bit, and you can be fairly certain that it won't get lost that way.

Great idea!! And too bad so sad for her if she loses it. Good to teach her some responsibility and that she needs to take care of her things. My sons age 4 and 5 have to take care of their school water bottles and they are doing just fine 5 months in.

Oh I would love this. Kids loudly scrunching one-use plastic bottles in my lessons is both incredibly annoying and bad for the environment.

That isn't a stupid rule at all!

It's absolutely brilliant. I would feel hideous sending my child in with a plastic bottle of water that I was happy for them to lose (and therefore get thrown away).

So they have gone to the trouble to provide all the children with a bottle in order to reduce plastic waste. Good on them!

Oh hang on, are we meant to be outraged that it's pink shock horror

But it's now required equipment, so if she turns up without it, she'll get a demerit followingon. She won't get it back until she next has English. She always leaves them in English. No one's nicking them. She knows she's leaving them. She's very absent minded. Now I can't just replace it with another Evian bottle (I always have spares in the house precisely because she does this).

Kids loudly scrunching one-use plastic bottles in my lessons is both incredibly annoying and bad for the environment.

I'm not a teacher, but the scunching sound of someone doing that drink/suck thing on a thin plastic bottle is one of my most hated sounds. It grates on me in a way that is totally out of proportion with the actual volume of the sound.

Well she’s just going to have to learn to be more responsible and less forgetful. Not a bad thing.

She won't get it back until she next has English

Maybe she’d forget them less often if she had to keep schlepping back to English at breaktime to pick it up instead of just abandoning it.

TulipCat I refill the Evian bottles if she brings them home. I really can't afford to keep replacing the school bottles, and she needs to up her fluid intake, so I don't want to send her without water either.

Well maybe she'll stop always leaving them in her English class, it'll actually teach her to take responsibility, rather than you just giving her a new bottle every day. I can't believe you think this is a bad thing