Aibu to feel sorry for these school girls?

[greeneyedlulu]

It's freezing out, snowing in fact, and so many girls out and about with just socks and skirts (and the rest of their clothes) but my God, aren't they cold?
Every morning I walk past the local primary school on the way to the station and see these young girls and they look so cold. I just wonder why they don't have those thick tights or trousers on?
I honestly do feel sorry for them and want to give them a hot chocolate and a blanket!!
Is it just me?

At our school, the boys were shorts until they go into Y6!

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Bloody phone!

Surely the reason kids in other countries wear coats is because its colder there? The UK is pretty mild really. It was zero degrees here when I took the kids to school. It'll warm up a few degrees as the day wears on and they'll spend most of the day inside a warm class room. When they're outside at primary age they usually zoom around and keep warm that way.

It's cold enough to be uncomfortable but not dangerous like it could be in some other countries when the temperature drops well below zero and stays there all day.

My ds had to be forced into a warm coat rather than his thin rain jacket he prefers. Both daughters feel the cold though so no fight to get them to bundle up, even if the eldest is a teen.

If my daughter is anything to go by, they are dressed like that through choice. Dd refuses to wear a jacket to school, won’t wear the blazer cos she hates the material so out in just school blouse tights and ( short ) skirtSometimes she wears a jumper if it looks ok tucked into the skirt.
Also fussy about what tights she wears... nothing too thick in case she becomes a laughing stock amongst her peers !! Her friends are much the same.She’s 16 so this isn’t just s primary school thing.

10yo DS (he insists on this) goes to school in shorts... in all weathers. (Sigh)

What I can't understand is the parents we get at work.(children's nurse) who sit on a tropical ward with their winter coats and wooly hats on. While the rest of us are trying to get the heating turned down!

At primary school I refused to wear trousers. My mum would have had to physically force me into them. Do you have a child OP?

I remember coming home from school as a sixth former. The day had got much, much colder and not only had i not taken a coat, but I hadn't taken a jumper. It was a significant length journey home, a mile or so walk and then wait for a bus and walk at the other end too. The bus was not heated either. I was getting colder and colder, by the time i made it home i was almost unable to move from the cold. I finally managed to get through the front door - my hands were shaking too much to unlock the door and i was really hunched over, and then i fell onto the floor, and curled up, it felt like i would never not feel cold and shook. I was really unwell for several days afterwards - a flu type thing i think.

I wondered afterwards if i had got hypothermia from that journey.

Of course I didn't tell my mum. After a while i could get up and didn't mention it when she came home that night. My mum was very unsympathetic to stupidity and self-pity. I should imagine i thought it'd cause me more problems if i told her! I do remember i was really unwell for a few days afterward though.

I never wore coats at school but I did wear tights under my trousers and sometimes several layers of camis and t shirts under my polo shirt. Bonus if they were bright and showed up under the shirt. I also used to wear scarves and fingerless gloves which I avoided taking off as much as possible.

Interested in what your is theory @claraschu

I'm from the continent and have to say I am also a bit shocked at children (and adults) wearing weather-inappropriate clothes here in the UK, but could it just be that temperatures are globally milder here, so wearing a warm coat / gloves / scarf... Is comfortable but not critical most of the time?
Also could no uniform means teens can find easy ways to look cool and warm at the same time?