Most ridiculous, nonsensical rules at your DC’s school

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Mine is no baseball caps or sunglasses, despite the fact that the school field and playground have no shade.

Whats yours?

The staff in our dinner hall will suggest that the children eat their savoury food first, so they have something nutritious and filling in their tummies, to keep them going for the rest of the day.
We don’t make the children eat all the lunch, but we do try to persuade them to eat what they can before having pudding.

No running in the playground. (children's primary)

Because not everyone has a choice. Where we live there are two primary schools and one secondary school. If you live here, you go there.

Boys have to wear blazers and ties. Girls don’t! So bloody sexist 🙄

Some of these are so ridiculous you wonder about the people making the rules. There must head teachers on Mumsnet who work in schools like these who can try to explain why they would have these rules! It fascinates me.

Jeans for genes day!

Not allowed to put blazer in their bag. Which is ablist for all those children with executive function difficulties due to autism/ADHD etc. (I have one that loses stuff constantly)

Dark coats only so drivers can't see you walking out from behind the badly parked cars in the dark.

We don't have a choice due to distance criteria in a lot of places. DD had more choice than ds two years later.

Same in my daughters school, really dont understand it, they get a detention for wearing a coat indoors!

No short/trainer socks, they must be plain black and cover the ankles. In yr 7 their lunch break was in the middle of a lesson so they’d do 25 minutes of a 50 minute period, break for 35 minutes for lunch then return to finish the other 25 minutes. Including PE.

Also very glad I'm not raising my children in the UK - no ridiculous rules in Finnish schools, they can wear what they want, have their any colour and piercings don't matter so long as they're not a safety risk.

Only ridiculous rule I can think of is the primary school doesn't let them play king of the castle, which is such fun to play. DS got into trouble a few times playing it in preschool. Also not allowed to throw snowballs but that's quite sensible really.

Actually it isn't.

The origin of the blazer and tie is that grammar school boys would go to work in places that needed them to wear a shirt and tie.

Girls wearing a shirt and tie so that boys get used to it for the workplace is sexist.

I covered in one school where the girls had a choice of shirt and tie or a blouse and a cravat. The cravat was similar to a flight attendant uniform.