To not want my DD doing PE in torrential rain!

[TheoriginalLEM]

DD is in year 6 and yesterday they did PE in the rain. Now i have no problem with her doing PE in the rain but this was ridiculous. She had a waterproof coat on (not a pe coat, big heavy coat) which was soaked through and i could wring her PE kit out that she had to bring home to be washed because it was so wet!

Now she is on the sofa with a stinking cold - now i know she didn't get the cold because of the rain but she started sniffling last night so i am pretty sure it hasn't helped.

Her teacher (who thankfully she only has for PE) made a big thing of telling them they would do PE in all weathers but this was ridiculous.

I got caught out in it yesterday too, but i was able to come home and have a warm shower straight away and dry off, not sit in my fucking wet vest and pants.

No point in complaining teacher is an arrogant twat so ranting on here instead.

The OP's daughter's school doesn't have hot showers in the PE changing rooms?

OMG. Where is this place?

It's a primary school.

I imagine very very few primary schools have PE changing rooms at all, let alone hot showers.

I think you build up better immunity with continual exposure to being outside in all weathers. At least if you are youngish and healthy

No, you really don't. I was continually exposed to being outside in all weathers as a youngish and mostly healthy child, and I had if anything worse immunity than most.

Lurked, you didn't restrict your original comment to normal UK temperatures, so you can't move the goalposts now. But there are certainly, for instance, many recorded instances of people trekking across UK moors and mountains getting seriously ill through exposure.

I don't know. As a family are you green of complexion and prone to melting?

Scremersford if you make a big fuss about rain (September rain = really not that cold), you risk missing spending most of your life avoiding doing things and putting them off because of the weather
Scremersford: guess what: most of us don't live the majority of our lives outdoors in the 21st century, so no, we would not miss most of our lives.

I'm not moving the goalposts inimitable. You want to bring up frostbite in a thread about Pe in September rain, then yes I'm going to assume you mean in the UK during normal exercise. I assumed you weren't making irrelevant references to completely different places and situations.
You do also realise that when people do get ill through exposure on UK moors and mountains, it's never from an hours walking/ movement?

I can't see the point of making PE miserable for kids, pretty much a good way to ensure as adults they may not like sports!

What the hell kind of PE can you do wearing a coat anyway? V odd.

Well yes, Lurked, I do realise that. That's why I phrased it as "through exposure". However much you duck and dive, the fact remains that you can get cold in cold weather even whilst continually moving: I can attest to that from years of experience. That is especially the case when you are soaked to the skin and have to continue wearing wet clothes for the rest of the day.

Getting cold and wet would certainly my reduce her immunity and make her more susceptible to catching cold.the teacher is an idiot. No wonder people are turned off exercise

I just can't believe there are people who think that getting wet gives you a cold- hey, welcome to 21st century medicine, guys! You do know that apple trees don't grow in your stomach if you swallow the pips, don't you?

I disagree inimitable. Unless you have a health condition, it's only when you stop moving you get cold. And tbh any healthy person should be able to keep moving for a few hours at least, never mind an hour. I don't base that on just my own experience either. The people who get cold from a few hours exposure to UK temps are always those who don't or can't keep moving. Exception would be wearing a bikini for the day or something ludicrous the odd time we get down to minus 10 or other unlikely scenarios.

IonaNE Scremersford if you make a big fuss about rain (September rain = really not that cold), you risk missing spending most of your life avoiding doing things and putting them off because of the weather
Scremersford: guess what: most of us don't live the majority of our lives outdoors in the 21st century, so no, we would not miss most of our lives.

I find it really sad that you equate doing some things outdoors with living the majority of your life outdoors and it therefore being impossible to go outside if it rains. Are you one of those people who doesn't go outdoors, other than to go from house to car? Do you never exercise (except in a gym)? Go for a walk? Even walk to your work in the rain? Even going shopping fgs, yes, getting wet is slightly unpleasant, but there are umbrellas and coats and things. I mean, Britains a rainy country. That must be seriously life-restricting.

OP the whole thing you describe sounds bizarre. In general, no, getting wet while doing PE isn't a major trauma. Unless of course it results in lowered immunity/a soaked non-waterproof coat/no hot showers/no change of underwear/a strange PE activity that involves standing about in the rain wearing a coat.

YANBU Op. I don't mind the kids doing PE in a bit of drizzle but it is bloody stupid to make them play in torrential rain. Apart from making them ill, they could slip if the ground is so wet. I have allowed my dcs to play rugby and football in awful weather but that has been my choice. It really pisses me off when schools make decisions like that just because it would be inconvenient for their timetable.

I just can't believe there are people who think that getting wet gives you a cold- hey, welcome to 21st century medicine, guys!

Maybe they are the people who have actually read the 21st century research into the temperature dependent defence mechanism against the common cold

Explanatory note - I have a horse, and I can't stop caring for it if its raining. Sometimes I have to get wet and gulp muddy. I haven't had a cold for about 2 years.

But I guess much the same applies if you have a dog that needs walking. What if it rains every day for a week? Do some people just stop exercising their dogs because its raining?

iirc the research is about getting cold, rather than being rained on. And getting rained on doesn't have to mean getting cold.

Do you mean that very marginal Cardiff University study with the people with their feet in bowls of iced water?

Scremersford I find it really sad that you equate doing some things outdoors with living the majority of your life outdoors
Scremersford, you are not recognising your own words and are putting them into my mouth instead?
"if you make a big fuss about rain (September rain = really not that cold), you risk missing spending most of your life avoiding doing things" - who said this: you or me?
If cancelling things for rain affects most of your life, then I presume you eat, sleep, work, make love and relax outdoors. I just wanted to point out that most of us don't. I spend a reasonable amount of time outdoors. But not most of my life.

OP, apologies for the hijack.

"Presumably they thought about that before getting a dog?"
This ^

There is a huge difference between making a decision freely as an adult (=getting a dog), weighing up the pros and cons; and being made to do something while you are still a child and at the mercy of random adults.