To wonder why half of my sons class were to scared to go to school without a jumper on today?

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Random but yup...

It's scorchio here, like 23 degrees. It has been for a couple of days. Tue/Wed my son (6) had a meltdown of sorts in the morning as I said he didn't need to wear a jumper. I've been looking to sending him out with a shirt/polo and a lightweight canvas coat just in case but those days he wore a jumper and came out of school hot, red and aggitated. But he's been insistant he needs to wear a jumper or a big coat. Today was awful, tears and everything. Adamant he's going to get into trouble. I assured him he wouldn't. Anyway it eventually came out that 'Betty' in the dinner hall told them they had to wear a jumper or a big thick coat or they'd be in trouble. Don't know who Betty is, don't know why she'd say this. Spoke to some mums this morning and they've been having the same issues - how bizzare?!

Spoke to teacher (hate being one of 'those' mums but he'd been so upset over it all) and she's none the wiser.

Who is this Betty and why is she insistant the kids should be melting?!

Dinner lady? There are only two kinds you know- nice and totally sadistic and evil.

Is Betty an lunchtime supervisor, this is the only thing I can think of, although surly the teacher should know the names of these?

surly.. I mean surely ..

maybe 'Betty' (i'm thinking dinner lady as well) said it one day when it was quite cold and they've all remembered it?

Betty needs to be put in a fleece and a ski suit and sat outside in the sun until she melts.

Betty Swallox? Cos that's what the boys will get wearing thick knitwear on a day like today!!!

I thought it was usually the other way round - kids refusing to wear coats in sub-zero temperatures.

It amazes me that parents of young children believe every unlikly tale their DC utter.Do you not think it was a cold day when Betty sid that? Your DS might want to take a jumper for goalposts though!!

DS1 went to school in a jumper. I had to talk him down from wearing the school coat as well. He kept going on about how you have to bring a coat or you get into trouble. I ended up telling him that if any pone at school tells him off for not having a coat when it's hot, he should tell them to phone me and I'll explain why overheating is a bad idea.

I told him to take his jumper off and put it in his bag too, but he probably won't so he'll come home hot and sweaty. Yuck.

at DDs school (secondary) they HAVE to wear their jumpers in class unless the teacher specifically tells them they can take them off. They're allowed to not wear them at break, lunch and between classes, but have to put them on at the start of each class. I'm and the poor DC are . However, it's "uniform policy".

Can anyone else see an advert for a maternity store right in the middle of this thread???

Midnight: DS1's school's 'uniform policy' stipulates coats unless the teachers have said they don't need them. Hence DS1's angst. I'm quite happy to tell them to bugger off if there are sanctions applied for not having a coat when it's 23 or so degrees.

No. Are you using the mobile version?

Sounds like a lunchtime supervisor maybe, but no idea why she'd insist on jumpers or coats this week!

I was more shocked today to see how many children are still wearing a vest this week. I had 4 very hot and fustered children complaining of feeling too sticky this morning - all of them in vest and t shirt. Sent them all to the toilets to take their vests off. At least a little bit cooler.

DD's school has a strict uniform policy and they do have to have their cardi, blazer and hat with them. But they don't have to be wearing them if so warm.

Yes. I can. It's just started in the last few mins and its fecking annoying.

Yes, on my phone.

Why do they have to have them with them. It just means (even) more for them to cart to and from school.

Memoo: random ads always appear mid thread on the mobile version. It's the only place to put the advertising when there's no sidebar.

Betty will have thrown that 'cast ne'er a clout till May be out' malarkey at the poor mites. We had a neighbour that believed that 100% when I was a kid, the poor kids in that family were in coats and jumpers while we leapt about in shorts.

No idea tbh. Cardi always goes in her bag. Hat she will wear anyway - acts as a sunhat I guess. Blazer she carries.

Midnight, our secondary does this.

Drives me mental. Primary might suggest wearing/ not wearing a jumper to YR, but quickly give up bothering.

Suddenly at 12 you loose the right to decide your too hot

What confuses me even more is the DC stand for this rubbish, my peer group would have sorted it out in two days max.
(but most of us came by bus we couldn't be sent home and no way would our Mums have brought our numbers in, most didn't have cars anyway).

Jumpers

At DS's secondary jumpers are optional, winter and summer. Today is the first day DS has not worn it to school in the morning and kept it on all day. He's very cautious!

for girls its tits and sweat

It's seems very strange. All the boys in DS1's class have been in t-shirts and shorts all week.

Memoo, I have got stupid ads too.

Damsel, ads in the middle of threads aren't normal on the mobile site. Only started about 10 mins ago. Very very annoying.