To be irked that teacher wouldn’t open 6-year-old’s water bottle at school?

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Just that really. 6-year-old came home very thirsty and said he has a headache. I took his water bottle out his bag and said, “oh you didn’t drink anything?”

He said he couldn’t get the cap off (It wasn’t on that tight, but oh well!), and that he asked his his teacher to help and she said no, she can’t touch his water bottle because of Covid.

So all day he drank no water.

Aibu that she should have helped him and then just washed her hands?!

Send in a better bottle. One of very few jobs you as a parent have to do as regards schooling.•

Really? As a parent a significant amount of my time seems to involve me dealing with my kids schooling. And the OP has says repeatedly this is a bottle her child uses independently all the time. It’s entirely possible he just couldn’t get it this time, it’s not ok that he had no help with this and didn’t drink anything all day.

@mumwon

I very much doubt this
what we had is those (totally unhygienic ) water fountain things for in between & some dc drank from the taps ( goodness knows how we survived) & in primary school until Thatcher robbed dc of milk - we had milk in the morning

..there were no water fountains in any school or college (or indeed university) I went to. I never saw a water fountain until I went to work in an office aged 21.
There were taps in the toilets, granted, but good luck being allowed into them more than once a day in my school.
Milk was long gone by the time I started school in 1984 too.

Gosh this makes me so sad. I teach Year1. I have helped many children with water bottles today. My hands are ruined from washing and sanitising them hundreds of times a day. Yes she should have helped but schools and policies are trying to find their way at the moment and some compassion wouldn't go a miss on both sides. Some of the language towards a probably scared and possible vulnerable teacher who is likely doing as she was told is frankly awful

No grown adult should "kick off".