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?

This is such a non-issue. OP's DS will drink water. The school says "water only". Send the child with water. The end.

But I'm with previous posters on this. I went to primary school in the late 80s/early 90s and we didn't have water outside of playtime and lunchtime.

Flavoured water is junk filled with chemicals. Stick with ordinary water and you cannot go far wrong. I am sick to death of being conned at events and things into having water which turns out to be water full of added things - these awful favoured waters.

I'll never understand why people choose to pick battles with the school over this. It's such a non issue.

I think it's because at heart, they are still teenagers fighting against the authority of the school and all the rules from the squares who want to spoil their fun.

In other words, they just haven't grown up.

I remember going along with all sorts of cobblers I didn't agree with in the 8 years my two spent at First School, I think you get used to it. I snapped a bit in the last year and refused to let DS2 do a project, but that was it.

Just put water in his bottle...if he's thirsty enough he'll drink it. I don't get the issue with school not providing water anymore - presumably he'd have to drink it then so at the moment he's actually better off as you give him squash.

My DS has to have water in his bottle and they are all given a see through bottle when they start school to encourage it to only be water. Sometimes he drinks it, sometimes he doesn't, but he doesn't keel over with dehydration after 6 hours at school.

I'm pretty sure the 'science' was sponsored by one of the bottled water companies ...

I worked in a school once where staff were only allowed to drink water. I like tap water, but I do like to drink it out of a mug (I think this stems from my childhood - my mum would serve all my drinks in a black mug so I didn't notice I didn't have the same fizzy pop as everyone else). I got into trouble one day at work for drinking out of a mug, I was only allowed to drink out of a sippy bottle. How ridiculous.

I cannot stand the constant sipping on bottles. It is different if we're on a trip for the day in the height of summer but the bottles are not necessary in my air conditioned classroom, when the longest stretch of time between breaks is less than 2 hours!

At DS's school the kids take in 2 water bottles. One for the classroom and 1 for their lunch. DS has explained to me it's important to be well hydrated. He's 5, he gets it. I really don't understand your problem.

my mum always goes on about the bottle thing - a load of infantilised adults.

etcetc

Water bottles in the classroom are a great displacement activity from things like 'tidy up time'.