Juice in school

[Fubar01]

My DD’s teacher is being very combative about her taking juice to school (primary) in a clear drinking bottle. He says it’s against school healthy eating standards, but if she brings it in a non clear bottle it’s fine! She brings a very healthy lunch and has perfect teeth. She is also very sporty . She point blank refuses to drink water. Yet others in her class bring crisps and chocolate and nothing is said .
AIBU to stick with the (new) clear bottle?
i dislike petty rules that have no bearing on her education ! Especially when the rules are not enforced for others !

I’m not the one wasting time , the teacher is wasting his own time by trying to enforce petty rules

A clear bottle is unfair on the other kids. It's like letting her eat haribo at her desk, and not letting any of the others have any

@Fubar01

This is not a hill I would die on.

You have a choice here-IMHO the teacher being helpful-

get a different bottle
give your DD water
Move schools

You seem to want to escalate this into more than it is.
Don't bring drama-otherwise it will be no juice!!

I just put flavoured water in my son's bottle.

He does drink water, but likes it fresh out of the fridge, so he was coming home with a warm water bottle that was still full. We've switched to flavoured water and he drinks the full thing every day.

It’s not about the juice it’s about the hypocrisy of saying you can’t have juice it’s against school standards. But if you put it on a non clear bottle it’s fine! What is that teaching our children?

We certainly don’t have one due to a bit of juice in a bottle.

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The overreacting on this thread is ridiculous and the teacher is being persnickety. I bet the staff room is full of caffeine and cake! Fizzy drinks are a short, very sugary energy burst, so absolutely makes sense on many levels why they’re banned. But juice is mostly flavoured water, it’s not the end of the world.

So we teach our children to be sneaky ?

Send water in the bottle. Nothing else.
If she's thirsty she will drink it.
You are pandering too much and being a pest of a parent by being a fuss about this!

Of course not. I love juice, and drink it in moderation

It's the attitude that's the problem. My child must have sugar for every drink! Water is not good enough for my child!

My DD has ASD and accompanying massive issues around food and drink. School resisted anything but plain water in her bottle resulting in her drinking nothing (and I mean not a drop all day even in summer) so her consultant wrote a letter stating that she would be bringing diluted juice in her bottle.

We did pop it in a coloured bottle so you couldn't see the contents. We have had some progress and she will accept flavoured still water on PE days so she can take her school clear bottle on the sports field.

Tbf sugary drinks is a huge contributor. Even fruit juice that people believe to be healthy are basically just sugar. It's good to instill healthy habits from a young age. Know better, do better.

Anyone who can’t answer an op without resorting to personal attacks shouldn’t be questioning anyone else IQ.

So you think it’s okay to teach primary school children to be sneaky !

I assume the non clear bottle is so other kids don't get jealous that their classmates have juice whilst they have water. But that would seem daft when they can be envious over the snacks they each get.

Tbf I'd just get a non clear bottle as I wouldn't have the energy to waste on something trivial.

However, I would have the energy to address DD dictating that she must always have a sugary drink. Point blank refusing to drink water? No way would I be accepting that as a parent, sporty or no sporty.

The poor teacher is trying their best to give you a compromise. If you are that worried, just give her water.

Honestly op. You are coming across like a total loon. The school rules say no juice but teachers turn a bit of a blind eye as long as it's not flaunted. Why oh why would you chose to go to war with teacher and get reputation in school as difficult as awkward when all you need to do it buy a different bottle.
If these are the issues you wish to go war on, you're in for a difficult school career.

No, it's the school trying to accommodate conflicting needs.

You're being disingenuous, they're allowing you to bend the rules. If they said that you couldn't have juice at all then you'd complain about that. Honestly, would you rather your chirl had an education or that teachers wasted their time on dumb shit like this? Really?

So you actually think that it’s okay for teachers to enforce rules for some and not others ?

Great solution. You can be the bigger person OP, don't fall for the sneakiness and give your daughter water instead! 😄

My eldest DD was terrible at drinking water, she would literally not drink all day if I gave her water.
So I got her a pink drink bottle and put summer fruits squash in it for school and nobody ever found out.
She is 13 now and drinks water all the time, in fact prefers water to squash.
She also has never had issues with her teeth.
So just send her in with squash, it's really not a big deal.

So you would rather they ban her juice altogether?