Being pissed off that high school children are not allowed to wear Winter coats, scarfs etc when it's freezing cold out there

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Maybe they are allowed but if so why is it that they are not wearing Winter coats over their uniforms on their way to and from school? The only article I found about it or feedback that I got when I ask the question to students that I know is that they are not allowed to enter the school with coats, hats, scarf and or gloves... or if so they will get detentions of one hour after three warnings. I think it is ridiculous to expect them to walk to school dressed in bloody shirt and jacket which is not even closed off in 0 degrees and freezy wind temperature. It makes me livid! Then they wonder why some end up with colds, flue and chest infections. Don't they have a place in these high school where they could put their coats ie lockers or pegs? This country need to sort something out cause our children should be allowed to keep warm. Just came back from dropping my two dds at primary school, me dressed with warm ski jackets, hood on, gloves, and Winter boots and see this other teenager going to school with her mum: mother wearing winter coat with hood on and daughter only in school uniform, walking a long distance....cannot get it! So sad.

At my daughter's school they are allowed to wear coats to and from school but have to go into lockers during the day. They are allocated a locker which can be no where near their classroom so impractical to use and are frequently broken into. What they are not allowed at all is gloves, hats or scarves and as for sensible footwear they have even banned black ankle boots. You are not allowed to change them on school property so have to go to school in your school shoes. My daughter has to walk through 2 foot drifts of snow currently to get to the bus so i go with her and bring back what she can't take. She is currently wearing her ski jacket for school she'd rather be warm than cool.

Her school is unreasonable but winter is nearly over and its her last year, the footwear issue though is quite frankly a health and safety issue with all the icy pavements.

Wow, I'd wondered if this was a fashion issue too, am quite surprised to find it really is.

At my school the fashion was to constantly flout the no coats in classrooms rule, because the school was so bloody cold. In sixth form I used to swan around in an ankle length black coat, swishing through doors thinking I was hot shit. :D Ah, the things teens think are cool...

Funny thread
Teenagers don't wear coats, I thought everybody knew that.

My boys would rather die a slow painful death by freezing than wear a coat to school....its just not cool!

And if by some miracle I do sometimes persuade them to wear a jacket it it stuffed in their bags as soon as they leave the house.

They are definitely not allowed in my dd school they have to take them off before they walk through school gates and carry them .

And I rang the school to check my dd wasn't making it up!

Jack365 totally agree and i am sure you are not the only parent doing just the same carrying home what they don't need. I suppose my being upset about seing children not wearing appropriate coats is the fact that I am from Canada where Winters are different ball game. -15 is an average temperature and loads of snow feet and feet so yes, been used to seing kids wear full snow suits etc hats and gloves, but have been living here for 10 years and still find that temps around 0 is cold enough to wear Winter coats at least. I agree that it is mostly a choice that teenagers make but if school would make it more permissible for them to have coats then more would actually wear them.

Hermione: lol

My ds is not allowed to wear a coat for school. BUT he does, Everyday and is told off for it.

I saw two boys of about 15 walking to school the other day, one wearing one of those quilted barbour type jackets and gloves and the other one wearing A DUFFLE COAT, BOBBLE HAT AND WOOLY SCARF! I was so excited, they must have thought I was mental the way I was grinning at them. The boy in the duffle looked "cool" though so perhaps confident enough to plow his own cosy furrow.

Aw, that would have made my day!

alanmoore I agree "cool and confident enough to rock the look" I think is the important thing.

Ds is 17 he actually ASKED me to buy him a decent warm coat this winter and he wears it when it's properly cold. Till 6th form he went for the " hoody under blazer" if anything. BTW he did have a coat the rest of the time, just didn't wear it! It's a down filled anorak thing.

The other look the 6th form at DS school tend to go for if they wear a coat at all is a proper wool overcoat.

However by 6th form they are all becoming very "cool" individuals and past the sheep phase. It's nice to see. The eccentric legends are accepted and loved which is amazing. So flute playing and poetry writing/reciting is as valued as footy/rugby etc

It seems a modern thing to me, this not wearing a coat, fair enough the girls froze in shrunken denim jackets in my day (old) but the boys were warm in their football manager anoraks! They used to stuff them in their enormous 'HEAD' holdalls, end zipped off as pencil case and decorated with LUFC in tippex, during class time.

My dd1, who feels the cold, and generally takes her coat everywhere, only takes it to school if really really cold-snow on the ground doesn't get nearly cold enough. That's because she has to carry it round all day, and she hates that. I don't give her much sympathy when she rushes through the door proclaiming that she's freezing anyway.

I wore my denim jacket all day but had my dad's old anorak hanging in cloakroom (nobody would nick that!) so I could walk home warm!

I am pmsl at this thread.

A teenager? In a coat? Don't be ridiculous

What do kids do at break/lunch these days? We weren't allowed off school premises unless we had a pass and then you had to go straight home (older kids got us all banned from the shops!), and we weren't allowed to stay inside until 5th year, so we just huddled underneath the classrooms on stilts if it was raining/snowing and wandered the grounds otherwise. We used to go to various games practises to keep warm!
Just wondering if the coat thing is linked to more activities at break or something?

My dd seems to be the only 1 in her year probably not who wears a jacket to school its flaming freezing out, but I dont think it is cool to wear a coat I am sure the high school encourage it just the kids dont wear them. I was standing at a bus stop the other day a young girl about 16 standing with this leggings on and a t shirt with her hair wafting in the wind like it was a 'breezy day' it was minus 3 fgs,

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There was a brief period in the mid 80s when it was fashionable for girls to wear herringbone patterned tweed type coats. My mum was pleased :)

But other than that I have no memory of owning a coat between the ages of 12 and 30. I suppose these thick hooded bodywarmer/ gilet things are quite trendy for girls these days? With a decent hoody, you'd be fine.

oh god I remember those they were cosy

The nearest senior school to us is a private one. I think coats, scarves, hats and gloves must be compulsory if the temperature goes below a certain level because they all wear them and it looks like its part of the uniform as they're all similar. They also almost without exception seem to wear boots and carry an extra bag carrier bag presumably with shoes in to get changed into.

May have to think about saving up to send dd there if I've any hope of her staying warm in her teens

Oh God I've waved the white flag of defeat regarding coats and my dd.

Getting my dd (14) to wear a coat: forget it.

She's always moaning she's cold but will not wear a coat. Nor do any of her friends, that I can see. I've given up pleading, threatening, arguing about it.

The times I've insisted, she's taken it in but then doesn't bring it home. This continues until all her coats and jackets, then all my coats and jackets are at school and we have no coats left at home

I bought her a lovely parka type coat from River Island. She loves it but will only wear it sometimes at weekends. Why??

I've even given up pointing out the direct correlation between feeling cold all the time and not wearing a blimmin coat. But with the perfect logic of a teenager, apparantly that is an irrelavant point.

Yeah it's cool not to wear a coat. Bloody freezing in fact

Oh FGS, all schools should be required to provide suitable lockers for children to hang up their coats. It is stupid and irresponsible of the adults in charge of schools to actively encourage/force children go without coats in cold/wet weather. Even if some of them might to choose to do so anyway.

In my dd's case they have rules about what style of coat and what colour is allowed to be worn. She has a lovely green parka type she wears out of school but its not allowed for school. She also has a Barbour type padded coat but its not allowed because it has the brand name on it - I didn't believe her and I rang the school. It's true.

So she wears blazer and jumper and shirt and scarf.

But (how's this for nuts) in the roasting hot summer weather they are not allowed to remove blazers and/or jumpers without permission from the teacher.