To think if a child is cold - you let them get a jumper?

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And don't call them pathetic when they are shivering - especially if you are wearing a think fleece?

So as not to drip feed child has an ASC and often judges clothing by sunny - not sunny. So sunny but blowing a gail = t shirt until he realises it's cold!

Or a thick fleece

You need to give more information.

Of course if a child is cold you give them a jumper, but I think we need you to tell us age of child, who didn't give them a jumper... What actually happened?

I don't think I understand.

But it's most definitely not unreasonable for a cold child to be allowed to get a jumper!

I was trying to keep it brief!

Child got changed for PE with other pupils. Year 6. 10yo.
Went outside and sat on grass as told to wait for rest. After a minute or so asked if he could get a jumper as he was cold - he was shivering.
Told to stop shivering and being pathetic and no he wasn't going to get a jumper.

Just thought seemed a terrible way to speak to a child, and not really fair to call someone in a t shirt pathetic for being cold when your wearing a thick fleece.

Did you hear this child being called pathetic? I'd be really surprised if a teacher said that to a child, but if they did and you are sure that happened, then you should make a complaint to the head.

sounds like all my games lessons, ever
was there a warp in the space time continuum?

I doubt very much that's what happened unless you heard it yourself.

If you did hear it yourself, or truly believe that's what the teacher said, then you should, of course, be complaining to the HT.

Reminds me of my PE lessons and I'm in 40's.

Reminds me of hockey lessons at school - we were only allowed to wear a gym skirt, an aertex shirt, socks (absolutely no woolly tights - socks only) and our really thin school jumpers even if the pitch was frozen. The teachers would be out there in their tracksuits, anoraks, woolly hats and gloves and we'd be so cold it was painful but they couldn't have cared less.

It also sounds like my gym lessons. God, no wonder I hated them. I can remember going on in deep snow in shorts and a polo shirt to do a cross country 'run' on a surface that was so slippery you could hardly walk. It started pissing down halfway back and most of the class ended up in the nurse's office being warmed up!

Reminds me of hockey lessons at school

Isn't it lovely knowing you never have to do another hockey lesson for the rest of your life?

Sadly, I wouldn't be that surprised about a teacher using the word pathetic about a child. Disappointed and a little more disillusioned, maybe, but not surprised.

It's a junior school so there's no PE uniform rules. They can wear shorts,t shirt, tracksuit boottoms, jumper.

I'm the first to say don't always believe a child's version of events but when DS is upset and repeating a conversation he sticks to the script. He can't deviate. echolalia and rule based personality have their advantages!

Reminds.me of our pe lessons. Recently discovered in our old students newsletter that the pe teacher would wear three tracksuits!!

Oh the lovely hockey lessons! I was in the senior team. Many memories of running around a pitch turning blue - twisting my ankles due to studded trainers on frozen pitch!

Sounds like PE at my school!! Our school had no outdoor space so we had to get the coach to the hockey field. No matter what the weather was, even if it was a torrential downpour so we were soaked to our knickers, we had to play for an hour. The teachers, of course, would stay on the bus nice and warm