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.

we had to wear purse belts, floral blouses...but they never bothered what coat we wore.

Skirt length though was another story. I got one that was amazing but way too long, was told it was against the rules, and so I cut off the bottom and then they told me it was too short.

they gave up in the end, but I did get a reputation off that incident.

The local senior school has a blanket ban on boots of any sort. Coats are not permitted to be worn within the building and the lockers provided are too small to put a coat in. Thus many kids do not wear a coat when it is freezing. The school is a new build, so the locker issue could have easily been avoided.

The local senior school has a blanket ban on boots of any sort. Coats are not permitted to be worn within the building and the lockers provided are too small to put a coat in. Thus many kids do not wear a coat when it is freezing. The school is a new build, so the locker issue could have easily been avoided.

Mine always wore them youngest is 17 most kids wear them here though

Nope. Mine wear coats. It is a non negotiable in our house. I've had too many sleepless nights with babies with bronchiolitis and chest infections to let them be playing fast and loose with their health now. And the indoctrination obviously works because I only enforce the rule until the end of High School but my kids are happily wearing their coats to college whilst all the other idiots freeze on the bustop.
For what it's worth I am a slack Mum about many things but taking proper care of yourself is not one of them. Of course it does help that my kids are not sheep and aren't particularly influenced by peer pressure. In fact they have influenced quite a few of their friends to start wearing coats.

Bet the take them off at the end of the road! .

Not wearing a coat does not make you ill, by the way!

Not trying to enforce a cost rule on a 15 year old, does not equal not taking proper care.

Dd and ds1 do not go out in tshirts. They are probably warmer in layers, especially ds1 in football skins than in a coat.

And what seeker said ^

You don't catch a cold by being cold.

No but being cold a lot of the time does lower your imune system.
And they don't take them off at the end of the road - I can see the bus stop from my bedroom window.

I'm glad to read this as DSS apparently came home from school on Friday (in the snow) with no coat as they are 'not allowed'. I scoffed at that, but maybe at the tender age of 11 he is just too cool?

He doesn't actually own a warm winter coat though, and we don't have a car so long walks in the very cold weather often happen here. Is it worth buying him a coat or should we just leave him to hypothermia in his Hollister hoodie?

Ah now my ds is 11, and he wears a coat no problem (so far anyway) I got him a lovely warm coat in Millets' sale and he loves it.

Give it another year though and he'll probably be cringing at the thought he ever wore it

My DD comes home blue most days, but refuses point blank to wear a coat no matter how cold it is. I HATED being cold as a teen, they're mad IMO!

Our local high school dictates when students can wear school uniform coats.

We'd had a bout of snow before the head deigned to allow students to wear a coat

If you are seen wearing one before the official permission has been given, you are considered to be breaking uniform rules and taught in the LSU in isolation

Moomin - I bet they take them off on the bus then.

The bus is an overheated minibus type thing so I imagine they do.

Not trying to enforce a cost rule on a 15 year old, does not equal not taking proper care.

that it really is up to them if they freeze their butts of or not, I see them all shivering walking past my house with parents just like the posters on here probably just isn't worth the fight, and dd is exceptionally uncool but warm

I would have loved mine to have worn coats, scarves etc-even rainwear in a downpour would have been nice. They don't do it-at 15yrs you just let them get cold!

Well like I said, for me wearing a coat is non negotiable. At 16 or so I let them make their own minds up, fortunately by then they have a bit of sense.
Compared to everyone else on this thread I obviously have a major issue with this. I think for me wearing a coat is up there with wearing sunscreen, brushing your teeth and that kind of thing. Amazed I am in such a minority.

I come from a very cold country (can get to - 25 easily in the winter).Even there, as it was lame to wear a hat in the 80s and early 90s, School kids (including me) would not wear one even in the coldest temperatures.Must have frozen off lots of brain cells.Put a hat on leaving home in the morning and stuff it in my pocket round the corner.

In the mid 90 s hats suddenly came into fashion (hip hop, skating, snowboarding, grunge etc.), and everyone started wearing one.Even inside. After having to continually tell people off for not wearing hats, teachers had to suddenly start telling people off for wearing them all the time. Just how it goes, I guess

I wore a coat to school. Didn't give a shit that all the other girls were braving the winter in their skin-tight blouses and too-small blazers, mini-skirts with bare legs and paper-thin pumps. I wrapped the fuck up!! My love of scarves has never gone away either. I have about 50 of them...

Teenagers were, and are, stupid.

Ds is only 3 now, but is always wearing coat gloves and hat if it's cold ( he asks to , as well). I will make sure that he will also wear them when he's older - when I am around. However, I can't control what he does when I can't see it. I'd hope he has more brains than his frozen brained dm..

It's because they have to carry them about all day as lots of schools don't have lockers now. So kids don't take them.

The problem is that you are not around when they are older Toys-if a 15 yr old doesn't want a coat then he/she will take it off when out of sight.

All the teenagers I see walking to school in winter, or on the train to the sixth form college are in coats, hats, gloves and boots.

Lots of them also carry umbrellas in the rain.

Surrey/Hants borders is clearly a very uncool place.

moomins they generally keep warm though.

A layer of football skins, t.shirt, school shirt, blazer, hoodie, scarf is probably warmer than ds1s coat.

As long as they are warm enough does it have to be an actual coat?

"ompared to everyone else on this thread I obviously have a major issue with this. I think for me wearing a coat is up there with wearing sunscreen, brushing your teeth and that kind of thing. Amazed I am in such a minority."

If you don't wear sunscreen, you will get sunburned and you might get skin cancer. If you don't brush your teeth, you will get holes in them. If you don't wear a coat? Well, you might look like a dork- but apart from that.......