To think that school children should have easy access to drinking water?

[Schnullerbacke]

I'm sure this has been done before so apologies.

My DD (7) has just had a new teacher who changed the routines around a bit. They are now only allowed to drink water at lunch and are not allowed to quickly grab their bottles whilst going down / coming back up from break time or assembly. This is apparently done so they won't have to go to the toilet too often (which is just outside their door).

I think its a bit out of order but before I have a word I wanted to check whether IABU. I know its important to stay hydrated and I don't think this is achieved by drinking before school start and only then drinking again some 3 hours later.

Ah. Sorry- LaQueen, not sure this is exactly the thread for a paean of praise for grammar schools! Unless you want me to tell you about the water bottle and lost PE kit and detention policy of my ds's secondary modern. I forgot,in our coming together over water pseudo science, that you wouldn't want your dd to wait in the same lunch queue as my ds. I think I'll leave the thread to you. Have fun.

It's not just grammar schools, it's all state schools for older children. This is why they have to learn to be responsible whilst they are at primary. Detention for lost kit, forgetting homework, wrong uniform etc. is standard. If they don't learn at primary level, it will be a very steep learning curve at secondary.

It's also very good for children's self esteem, to be able to do things for themselves, even making their own packed lunches at age 7 or so. Many parents seem to underestimate their child's ability to manage and, without meaning to, they hamper their child's development by doing so much for them.

I agree that children need to do things for themselves faire. But, the op states the children aren't allowed to get a drink at break-times, so they are not actually in a position to make sure they have enough water before class. If the break really was just 90 mins, I wouldn't have a huge issue with this tbh, as long as the children can actually have a drink then. Its a fair compromise. But for my dd it was over 4 hours, which is too long imo and unnecessary. I suspect it is similar for the op dc.

I wonder why saying you are taking your dog for a walk, constitutes "stomping off in a huff"

Just goady nonsense.

It is goady nonsense. The sort of thing you would expect a 12 year old to say. Perhaps she's left her account open by accident and her dd is pretending to be her.

MN thrives on goady nonsense!

I don't think it does Tamer, the vast majority of posters manage to post without resorting to it.

Not on AIBU- it is like the school playground!

the op states the children aren't allowed to get a drink at break-times

No, the op states they are not allowed to quickly grab their bottles whilst going down / coming back up from break time or assembly but does not actually say that they can't drink during breaktime.

And the op was written before clarifying with the teacher, so she only has her dd's version which is probably not what actually happens. Most schools do have water fountains for use at break time.

OP abandoned her thread almost immediately, so we can't know for sure but I would be very surprised if the children were not allowed to drink at morning break as that is the usual drink/toilet time.

You may be surprised faire, but regardless of that, when my dd was in reception the children did not get a drink at break time. I complained, other parents complained, teachers admitted it, agreed to change things, but they didn't. You may also be surprised to find their toilet time was lunch time, and that was it.

They don't need water bottles-they just need easy access to water.
In ds's school they have a sink and a stack of plastic cups, where they can help themselves at certain times thru the day.
I am all for children being taught to be independent, but in reception and sometimes year one children do need to be reminded to drink something-and the number of times I have said to a 6 yr old boy who is squirming about "go to the toilet!!" because they just don't! (what is that about? )
Children develop different things at different rates, some children have the motor skills to do laces and zips at 4, some just don't, and the faux horror about children being unable to do certain things is just smuggery.

Arf at LaQueen dropping in another mention of her DD passing 11+

You can name drop universities after that!

With exam results in between!

Talk of 11+ always makes me smile. Growing up in London I remember the scrapping of 11+ to make way for comprehensive schools. So I never took it. This was over 40 years ago!!

All without the aid of water bottles!

Luckily it has been scrapped in most places,ArgyMargy.

I expect you'll be lamenting the unfairness of it all if dd2 doesn't pass then. And wondering if a little more water may have helped