To wonder why school are making the kids take their blazers in this heat?

[eleflump]

DS is just at the end of Year 7, so this is the first summer we've had at secondary school.

It's obviously boiling hot at the moment, but school (ordinary comp) are insistent that the kids have to take their blazers. So, he walks to school with it in his bag, puts it on just outside school to walk in, then is allowed to carry it round in his bag all day. By the time it gets home, it is a scrumpled rag.

AIBU or is this bonkers? Or is there some sensible explanation that I just haven't twigged?

In dd's school they have to wear blazers and jumpers out of school too. Bonkers.

DD is only a baby but I'm dreading her going to school because stuff like this gets me all ragey! Pathetic rules, I have no problem with school uniform but they should be practical like polo shirts and sweatshirts, not blazers in hot weather! And they shouldn't have to ask a teacher before taking jumpers or cardigans off, we had to do this when I was at school.

I hate the separate uniforms for girls and boys too, particularly thinking of primary school children now. Far better for them all to be in trousers or shorts when hot, easier for playing etc. I remember hating having to wear a skirt to school.

Bonkers, I believe DDs school had the bright idea of not letting them take their jumpers off in Summer. It didn't last.

I still think it's barking they have to ask to remove them in winter.

From nursery to Y6 they can decide to take their jumpers off if they are hot, then in Y7 they get treated like babies and have to ask permission.

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It makes me despair, DD's school was just like this. Why have British schools got an obsession with such petty, ridiculous rules?! If an employer refused to let staff remove jackets there would be a mass walk out. Should be absolutely no different for school students.

Senior management and all teachers should have to keep a jacket on in this heat, so they can feel how inhumane it is.

So glad mine are primary. They're outdoors for most of tomorrow and have been told to wear sunhats. DS2's pinched DS1's, so DS1 chose a red one with anchors on, today! They'll be wearing their sunhats with school trouser shorts and the usual light blue polo shirts.

Just to give a different point of view though...
My DCs went to a very traditional school, blazers and ties had to be worn all the time until the headmaster stood up in assembly and declared summer, from when they could remove them. Now they are grown up and left school they regard those traditions and standards with great affection and think they stood them in good stead for some of the discipline required in adult life.

My DD's high school is still requiring the wearing of blazers. Luckily she has now finished her GCSEs and is not attending.

Last year I came close to posting a copy of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to the Head Teacher when it was very warm but he already thinks I'm a right royal PITA so it wouldn't have done any good.

Have just spoken to DD and although school like them to have their jumpers, the general rule is that if it's hot enough for the staff to take a layer off then the kids can too, which seems fair enough.