To wonder why secondary school kids never wear coats even when it’s raining?

[Herbalteahippie]

When I was at school in the early 90s it was uncool to wear a coat even when it was pudding down or cold. I even got punched and kicked for wearing a coat!
I live by a school and I see nothing has changed- drenched teenagers plodding home soaking wet.
Why?!

At our local secondary, they have no lockers so have to carry everything. My DM used to teach there and said the resultant fug of soggy steaming teenagers in the portacabin classrooms was not pleasant!

My 12 year old DS won't wear one either and a good 15 min walk. I am just going to get a cheapish pack a back this year and not spend out on a good quality coat as hardly wore it.

Our secondary is massive, as was the one I went to when I was a non coat wearing teen. I would often be soaked through but didn’t mind much. DD walks two miles to school and two miles back every day and sometimes wears a coat, but often doesn’t.

No coats on in school, means there is a scrum of kids removing their coats and trying to stuff them in their bags at the entrance which blocks up with several hundred other kids trying to fight their way through. Both schools I have experience of limited the the student entrances and you had to go in a certain way. My secondary didn’t have lockers. DD’s does but they are shared lockers, not enough for one each, and they aren’t the type with hooks for coats, just a void into which things are stuffed - books, wet coats, pe kits, and her locker-mate’s stuff too. Lockers are dotted all over school, so it can easily add 15 minutes to the kids’ day to arrive early enough to get to their locker and put everything in it and make it back to their formroom. Same at the end of the day. They might want to go outside to eat their lunch for example but if that means a detour to the locker for the coat they might not actually get lunch, they might end up in a massive queue, or they might end up with lunch but without enough time to eat it. End of the day, can easily leave the coat behind because all their friends are walking straight from the science lab and they want to walk with them, and not divert via their locker outside the sports hall etc. Then they end up without the coat in the morning because it’s in their locker....

Tell me when you find out??

Am sick to death of watching my 15 year old plod off into the twin without a coat!

*rain

Ds secondary school they mostly seem to wear them or use umbrellas.

Ds doesn't take one as he has transport door to door. I do suggest it on particularly wet day though!