I think I have now heard it all.......

[Ppatime]

True anecdote. Child in class wanted some water. Teacher directed child to drinking water tap in class and a clean cup. Child said that mum did not allow water from the tap; child only allowed to drink filtered water. For context, drinking water in our area is wonderful and the child has no medical issues.
Mind. blown.

@GuidoTheKillerPimp

In the places I’ve lived or visited in the UK, there’s been a lot of calcium in the water. I can’t drink it at all and it ruins my hair. I need to drink filtered water in the UK. And I’m talking from big London down to small town in Scotland.

From London to Scotland is up...

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You bloody well knew what I meant. 🙄

Is there a cultural background here? There are many places in this world where you do not and cannot drink tap water. It might be that she simply is reacting to what she knows and has not really realised that she can drink tap water.

@JingsMahBucket

*From London to Scotland is up...

You bloody well knew what I meant. 🙄*

It's always UP to London, where ever you start from.

I don’t think that is a reason to be gobsmacked. We all do our best to educate our kids about what’s good for us. And lots of people don’t drink tap water. Isn’t it better to just be nice about it? Just because a child has values that you don’t share is it really necessary to be so disdainful?

There are some pretty loud planes at air shows, some literally make your chest shake and set off all the car alarms nearby, and set off all the young kids and babies screaming. Ear defenders are a must.

Beggars on horseback, as they used to say.

Oddly enough, I have just been reading Joan Goldman's 'The School in Our Village', published 1957, by a teacher in a one-teacher village school in the Cotswolds over 60 years ago. One of her pupils was 'five-year-old Colin, who, like his parents, will drink nothing but mineral water!' So such attitudes are nothing new! Maybe Colin is now your pupil's grandfather!