Primary school don't supply water

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My son is in a small primary school. The only "drinking water" tap is in the school kitchen. They used to have water coolers in each classroom with named cups but that was deemed to expensive so instead of going to jugs of tap in each room they told everyone to bring in a named bottle of water.
My son will drink water when he's desperate and if that's what's openly available then fair enough.

If I have to provide him with a drink each day then I'll put in his bottle what I know he'll drink most of, especially if the weather is hot. I chose an opaque bottle, not to advertise the fact and have been sending him in with his usual home drink of no added sugar Robinsons blackcurrant. Turns out I'm not the only rebel and enough have been doing this to warrant a "provide water only" in the school newsletter.

Any thoughts? AIBU?

My first school warm water refusers now happily drink icy cold water as teens. So no harm done there.

This is such a First World problem. Can't imagine many people in drought-prone areas of the world, whinging because their child "won't drink water, but the school insist."

I think for the majority of children, they absolutely can and should learn to quench thirst with water only.

My baby dn drinks only juice. Apparently "won't touch water". No, because you have only ever given the child a taste of something sweet in the bottle/sippy cup. Anyway...

At our school, we send in water bottles and fountains are also available. If we give dd 10p she can buy juice at lunch. Part of me thinks fgs let me just put a carton of juice in her lunch bag sometimes, but the other part of me thinks it's quite good that she has the responsibility to have to pay for something herself.

Those with children who won't have water at school, a genuine question: what do you give them at home?

Yabu. Completely. Your ds will drink water 'if that's all that is available' so make it the only thing that is available. By giving him a bottle of water. What about his teeth? Sipping squash all day?

Seems you are only putting squash in as a reaction to them stopping water coolers. I can't see any other reason to do it. Yabu and quite childish.

Water bottles drove me to the brink of insanity when I was teaching.

i am a teacher. I say ' take a drink then PUT THEM AWAY '

we arent in the Sahara.

they are a right pain in the arse

The crackling noise.

The slide from water to squash to juice to Coke to crisps to sandwiches

The toilet requests

The requests to fill them up ('But I'm thirsty!' said so indignantly and piteously. Then repeated x 30. Several times.

Whoever brought them in needs to be sat in a room with 30 crackling bottles.

I. Hate. Them.

i told them - you lot carry on drinking sweet drinks all day and your teeth will fall out and you will all be as big as houses.

blunt

I can totally understand why Miss used to make them put them on the windowsill in the sunshine and out of reach.

plus wasnt the 'science' behind them debunked?

There was 'science'? Tell me more Elizabeth.

My friend is an infant teacher and said about water bottles god how i hate them she says the noise gives her a twitch

Why on earth do children need water bottles in class with them? I survived with a drink at break and lunch only as did all at my school.

Regardless of this, give him water. He'll drink it if he's thirsty.

Perhaps children are more prone to turning into piles of dust nowadays than we were in the 70s/80s?

Aye apparently the water helped brain function or something there was a whole thing about it in the early noughtys

So, to recap, your school does actually supply water, just not in a water cooler any more.

Strange thread title

Maybe the op thinks water cooler water is superior to tap water ?

When I was at school they supplied milky cocoa at break time which always had a revolting layer of skin on it. So I drank nothing from 8 till 1 when we had lunch. I seem to have survived and don't remember any massive thirsts.

I'm surprised that there isn't a facility for re-filling the water bottles at school. I'd be questioning that.

As to coolers, you can get ones that run off mains water which are considerably cheaper to run than the conventional refill kind.

But I think there should be a drinking water tap available. However, are there no water fountains?
I'm sure schools have to provide access to drinking water.

Check with the LA.

"In the summer i used to freeze water bottles over night so it wouldn't go warm they still didn't drink it"

There's a fine art to that, believe it or not, to freeze it just the right amount! Some of ours do it, but the ice rarely melts much at all before lunchtime, so by mid-morning, there are kids who have drunk the small trickle of water around the edges that has melted, and are left with a bloody great iceberg that is pretty useless.

The problem with the frozen ones is they are sopping wet on the outside.

Flavoured water?

We have a water fountain in the playground, and children bring in a bottle if they want to. In theory if they empty their bottle they could fill it up at the fountain, but it's more trouble than it's worth so they just grab a few sips with their friends who don't have a bottle.

Our classroom has a sink but the water isn't drinking water, so to fill up a bottle I would have to take it to the staff room to use the water there. Fine if it's a one off (and I do it if a child is feeling unwell), but there's no way my TA or I are doing it 30 times.

We don't allow frozen bottles - they drip everywhere.

Our children are all fine.

Flavoured water is sticky too.

What the hell is wrong with just plain old WATER?

I have never noticed flavoured water to be sticky. But the school says water so just send water in. If they are thirsty enough they will drink the hours old warm water. If not they bring it back but they won't dehydrate.