Reception TA let ds drink water bottle without Washing it as promised

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I forgot my ds water bottle in school.I saw the teaching assistant next day who told me she had found it and assured me she would wash it out and replace water.She didn't do this and ds came home with same water ,I knew because I'd put a little lemon in with his water.Just feel let down and like she thought who cares she won't know but because of the lemon I do.Would this concern you?

That bottle will taste of lemon for ever more now...

Honestly OP she was probably just busy!

As a teacher, I have failed so many times to do things I said I would as other more important things have taken over.

Don’t worry about it.

You forgot the bottle. Maybe the TA feels you let your son down. But probably not, because that would be daft.

Maybe the pp is getting that from the need to sterilise baby bottles because they have milk in and the milk breeds bacteria.
It may be more of an issue if say you have tonsillitis and have antibiotics as i think i read you are meant to even change toothbrush

It is annoying when someone offers to do something then doesn’t. But it isn’t because TAs don’t care about children. They usually do care quite a bit. But she probably got busy and forgot. Not a big deal.

Those of us who are further up the school can surely remember how it can feels to have a reception age child, no need to be so harsh.

With the number of children in a class nowadays she possibly forgot, or maybe she emptied it and popped the lemon back in.

We’ve got loads of water bottles as my daughter frequently leaves hers at school!

Haven't read full thread but maybe she changed the water but left the lemon in the bottle ?

Read this and had minor panic if any parent had asked me to wash a bottle this morning! Definitely not me but in defence of the ta if she's had a day like mine I'm not surprised if it slipped her mind! I'm sure she had every intention of doing it but most ta I know are luck to get a wee break!

OP reminds me of the mother that called the school office and demanded I take a photo of her DD with each child holding the Christmas card she gave them. Suuuuuure, I've got nothing else to do today.

I’m a TA in Reception. This sort of nit picking really annoys me. I think parents should spend a day in my class before coming out with some of the stupid stuff they do.
It’s bonkers.
I’m there to look after, teach, care for, occasionally clean up their children (who I love incidentally, wouldnt do my job if I didn’t) and sort out identical unnamed PE kits etc etc all with a smile in my face.
When parents come to me because their child has lost one unnamed glove, their child’s book wasn’t changed on Tuesday when I’ve done it every other time, when they send their 4 yr old to school in lace up shoes, or shoes with really tight buckles, when they hand me 30 party invitations to give out etc etc. I just wonder if they actually can imagine what my day at school is like.

In my last school I had to wash the water bottles out every day. This took me 20minutes ....20 minutes when I could have been hearing readers or supporting children who found learning tough. It’s crazy.

Apologies for the rant ....but please give TAs and teachers a break.

Of course it wouldn't concern me. Get a grip.

And another think OP....you’re worried about a few bacteria in day old water......how about the bacteria in that tiny piece of week old play dough that they thought they’d taste, the price of ice they picked up in the playground and thought they’d suck, the child opposite who sneezed without covering their mouth....I won’t even mention loo hygiene or eating anything cooked by reception children......

Are we talking a slice of lemon?

That would not have been allowed where my two were in YR. Plain water only.
Somebody was found to have lemon squash in an opaque water bottle.

Water bottles are really good breeding grounds for bacteria, so ignore all the 'I don't wash bottles for weeks' idiots

You are aware that all reception children, yes even yours, pick their noses and eat it? All of them.
You also know that the scissors, pencils, glue sticks, pens etc aren’t washed and sterilised every day after children have stuck them in their mouths, ears and noses. Nor is the sand or play dough.
You don’t even want to think about their toilet habits.

When did small children stop sucking worms?

Why put lemon in water. Your ds cannot clean his teeth at school after drinking it.

I leave a bottle of water in my car and often drink it the second day. It is fine.

Jesus it’s a little bit of lemon.
My daughter will not drink water without a little something and it’s taken me years to get her to drink so she has a little juice instead of becoming dehydrated or making her use her stomach tube in school

• do i work with you?

Chester I meant

Yabu - she was too busy. You should have taken a spare bottle in that day and took the old one home in the morning. Sorry op

@DryWhiteagainW your post made me laugh 😂 I work in a nursery and searching for one lost unnamed glove is the bane of my life....

From your comment you are clueless as to how hard tAs and teachers work. Spend a day at school observing. It will be an eye opener.

Perhaps instead of complaining about what wasn’t done, you could rephrase it to all the wonderful things they do. My dd is in yr6 now. I am in awe of some of the things the teachers and tAs have done.

There is no such thing as perfection.

What LJdorothy said.

I wonder if the TA is considering starting a thread about how you let your DS down over waterbottlegate.

Probably not because as LJ put it so succinctly, that would be daft.

I thought of this thread at the end of today.

I was tidying up some foam shapes, every single one had bite marks in it.