to think school should have allowed dd's hairband?

[m0therofdragons]

Not sure if iabu or not. It's fairly petty but annoyed me.
Last year dd had a straw sun hat for school but running around it came off all the time and didn't sit well over pony tails etc. Anyway, today was very sunny here and dd asked if ssh she could wear a light weight hair band she got last summer from Spain. It's pale pink and basically an elastic hair band that goes over your head but their is extra fabric over the top to protect from the sun - all the kids were wearing them on holiday and they stay on brilliantly. So I let dd wear it as she is very fair haired so I thought it sensible to have protection.
Anyway, she's come home and apparently it's not allowed so she ended up with nothing on her head at play time.
I don't really see why it's a big deal but okay I can accept it's not allowed but I do feel they should have let her wear it today so she was protected. Dd is in year 1 so 6yo.

She had Sun cream on. It's more that she gets Sun stroke.

I agree with Worra and she can't come to much harm for less than an hour in the UK in May. I've sat in front of wide bay windows all day and haven't taken my cardigan off and there has been intermittent cloud.

Get a hat of some sort in the regulation colours.

OP, YABU. I can clearly see why this scarf is a breach of uniform policy and it offers very little protection from the sun for the face or neck.

That's why I like the baseball caps because the sticky out bit at the front shades the face.

From reception class onwards we have to buy them but in nursery they keep a supply of them for the children to wear when playing outside.

Are you in the UK OP? It's been 17 degrees in London and that like the hottest part of the country. I don't think anybody would have got sun stroke today.

that looks like

It's not really much use against the sun, the only bits it covers would be covered by hair anyway.

One of the girls in dtd's primary had one made out of the green checked material they use for school summer dresses, which she wore all the time - but that was an anti-nit device!

There are no regulation colours, just any sun hat.

My children have these, they don't protect against the sun at all. I can also see why a straw hat would be annoying for her.

My children have soft, cotton hats against the sun. Although to be honest, I don't bother at this time of year because they need the vitamin D.

Well that's not a sun hat - it's a fashion accessory - it doesn't protect against the sun.

As I said it wasn't a big issue, we saw the sun this morning and in the absence of a hat it seemed a good alternative.

Surelymit woild have been better to let the OP's dd wear the scarf but then send her home with a note explaining why she wasn't to wear it again, and what woild be suitable for the future - because sun protection is actually more important than slavish adherence to the school rules!

Grrr - Surely it would - not whatever rubbish I typed.

Worraliberty - I've had skin cancer so yes I do want my child protected from the sun even if it's only May

I think you may have misread my post.

I didn't question why she has to be protected for an hour of May sunshine, I pointed out that if that is the case, she'll need a school appropriate hat as a matter of urgency.

While I get it's not regulation.
I also think they should have just left it on her today and asked you to send a hat in future.

I never said it was ideal, just what we had available. Can't get to shop until Saturday. Also, I checked weather report and apparently we have had rain showers all day - slightly shielding in that dtds and I have been out in the garden most of the day. [Hmm]

But surely you'll be ordering one online and getting a next day delivery, if she's really that sun sensitive that being in it for less than an hour, is a problem?

It's the principle, that any hat goes, eg bright pink with peppa pig/Minnie mouse etc is fine. If they had one hat that was regulation then it would make sense, just seems overly petty to me. Dd wasn't making a fashion statement, she is 6 and couldn't care less about fashion. Obviously she doesn't know my thoughts and she won't wear it tomorrow.

As others have said it's not an ideal hat anyway and doesn't protect the face at all. If they let one wear something like that then it opens to doors for others to want similar.

You can pick up Sunhats for a couple of pound in the supermarket now so just get one of them and tell her to wear it.

It's not a hat though. It's a sort of hairband a bit like a headscarf and would have a negligible role in providing sun protection which was the whole point of her wearing it.

I can see why the school wouldn't allow that.

it doesn't look like good sun protection unless I mistaken about how its worn. there doesn't appear to be any/much face/eye protection.

I think YABU now that you've posted a picture. That's not a hat, and if i'm honest I think it would do very little to protect from the sun, except maybe shade her neck. IMO 'hats' to protect from the sun should include bits that can shade the face fully!

So - it wasn't ideal, but it did go some way towards protecting her dd's head in the sunshine. Why is it OK for the staff to remove it and leave her with no protection from the sun?

Schools need to apply a little common sense. For example, as it said earlier, they could have let her wear the scarf today but sent a note home saying she mustn't wear it again. Or they could have found her a hat from lost property. Leaving her without a hat on a sunny day was poor judgement, IMO.

It's the sort of slavish adherence to the rules that leads some schools to confiscate a lunch they say contravenes the 'rules', without giving the child a replacement lunch (a story I have seen on here, though I can't find it at the moment - sorry).