To think my dd can wear her stud earrings swimming

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Aibu to think its fine for my daughter to wear her solid small gold studs for swimming? Dad's teacher said they would have to come out, so I have taken them out. But I think this is unreasonable... As a child we were always told no hoops, and that studs were fine?

Oh Beyond! That really is beyond the limits of acceptability.

No adult women takes ordinary studs out to swim, play sport or go to the gym

I am an adult woman. During mandatory PT lessons and sports training in my own time I HAVE to remove all jewellery, including earrings, wedding rings and watches. I can have disciplinary action taken against me if I don't.

Nobody should have piercings until they are old enough to take care of them themselves.
If they are too young to put them in and out and look after them properly then they are too young to have them.
Teachers have enough to do without checking if earrings are in or out or safe or whatever.

My DD has worn tiny loops since she was a few days old (she was born in another country where this is the norm). Since then I never took them off (all through toddler years, nursery, school PE & private swimming lessons) until we got to school swimming lessons. I was told we need to remove them or she can't swim! Had no choice really & didn't want DD to have arguments at swim time, so just complied. But we pop them back after the swim lesson day & tape them on PE days. I guess the rules are there to prevent accidents when the children are changing by themselves with not much 1-to-1 supervision. Not sure why it applies to much older children though!

My friends dd wore swimming, small hoops gold with a stone in. Against school rules but you didn't notice them (maybe covered by hair?) she wore them to swimming and took them off. Asked TA what to do with them. TA said to put them somewhere safe. Child put them in either coat pocket or bag and evict ably one got lost. Friend went mad had meeting with head teacher and complained that TA hadnt taken care of them and that it was redicolous for a child to look after them. She reckoned TA should have taken them and kept them safe.

School swimming letter now says no jewellery at all.

This is a good friend if mine so I told her that I didn't think it was the TA's fault in any way btw!

I'm an adult and I take out my ear studs when I swim. Don't want them falling out, but if they did it would be my problem.

if a child loses them no doubt there will be some precious parent complaining that something of huge value has been lost.

I suggest that if anyone has a problem with teachers implementing rules that they undoubtedly won't have made (fucking control freaks????) that they take up the issue with the people who did make the rules.

Or home educate.

Its a new rule at our school too. Heard it for first time this week.

However, that said, DD1 had hers taken out night before. She somehow managed to bash her ear against the swimming pool wall, and cut her ear, right where the piercing is. Freak accident, I know. But I was glad she didn't have her earings in at the time.

I see that Starballbunny thinks the schools are control freaks and she describes a teacher responsible for pupil safety as a busybody and a heartless bitch. No suggestion that the parent of a year 6 pupil had any responsibility to consider the implications of allowing the ear piercing.

The teacher nosing about the netball tournament was a fucking control freak. The children were there with their own teachers from their own primaries.

Their teachers are the ones who would have got in trouble. No reason whatsoever for her to get involved.

Honestly when I hear about people like the friend of littleducks I have to feel for the teachers and their "silly" regulations. Why in the world a TA should have to look after some child's jewelry is beyond me.

And complaining to the head teacher. The mind boggles.

Had the venue written to the primary schools saying no earrings can be worn, taping is not acceptable. Then we wouldn't have brought a pupil with newly pierced ears.

They clearly had not done so, and our lovely teacher was put in an impossible position by the silly cow.

Personally I'd have told her, to do a running jump, as she had no authority over the primary children what so ever.

YABU to fight this. Save your energy for the important battles in life.

At 7 she can't manage taking out her own studs? Really then she shouldn't have them. It's a rule, follow it or remove her from the lessons when you can swim with her.

This is why I think it's best to wait until they can deal with the piercings themselves.

OP, your daughter can't deal with the earrings herself. It means she is too young to have them.

Plaster op the earring cause my daughter a massive infection , leave her with a massive hole, e are about to go to emergency now appointment for midnight. Teacher pushed the plaster to hard, push the back earning into her ear, I hope it won t leave a scar. She cry when she hear she can t put them back on, they where just tiny studs if they did not touch it she was ok as she had them for ears and she is been fine until they start messing around with the tape. For all the parents please be carefully with tape over applied by teacher, leave us with a hard evening and hard night waiting to go to emergency after we talked to 111 and they made us a appointment thinking she must be seen tonight. I am really mad with the school as I never hear from that children are not aloud to have earnings n school and I think we must be informed.

Leave them out. A 7 year old with earrings is so tacky! Yuck.

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The British Netball association says NO jewellery is to be worn on the court. No earring, no necklaces not even plain band wedding rings.

They frequently

Pressed too soon.

They frequently send round photos of missing ears/ripped off fingers.

You used to to be able to tape newly pierced ears but they stopped that a few years ago.

All tournament organisers send out rules and regulations to each primary school before the day and EVERY one I have seen, for whatever sport, says no jewellery. Perhaps your lovely teacher didn't read them!

Just realised this is a zombie thread, apologies!!!!