To ask what you think to this school new rule?

[Redsatin109]

Just heard from other parents that apparently they’ll be reducing the amount of water y2 and upwards can have next year. So limiting the amount of times they can access their water bottle. This is because they’re only allowed to go to the toilets at breaks/lunch and it’s to limit toileting accidents in the classroom.

So my children go to the toilet when they need to, that's it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Your children are going to be in for a shock when they get to secondary school.

Mummy say I can disregard the rules and do what I want isn't going to fly there

Absolutely! They’re a pain in the arse

I am with the school on this. Maybe different policy for about two or three weeks a year. When the Met office declared a heatwave.

So that my children can go to the toilet when they need, that's literally it.

I have a child in secondary school too, and you're wrong.

News flash: We never had water at school. None of us died.

No we didn’t. But most people were very dehydrated too. It wasn’t a good thing. I remember having one small flask on squash all day at school.

We also had lunchboxes full of shite, no-one is advocating that now either.

Most (all?) schools had water fountains in the yard / corridors.
People did not spend their entire childhoods in a state of dehydration, that’s just nonsense.

Anyone who has experienced being in a classroom of 30 water bottles will absolutely understand the need for some kind of control. This is achieved by putting a few rules in place. The children will be fine. No teacher is interested in having a dehydrated class.

This is just another one of these threads where today's parents demonstrate a lack of trust in the professionals looking after their children.

That's complete nonsense.

Schools in the UK don't have 'bathrooms', they have cloakrooms or toilets, the bath is usually at home!

'Science' could also tell you that's wrong, as ever the facts are selected to prove one's own version of events.

Children don’t need to be constantly drinking & snacking

Can you define dehydrated and explain how you know most people were?

Oh, water bottles take up soooo much of my time as a teacher!
The scrunching noise of plastic bottles, the thud when they fall, the mopping up of spills, the squirting at each other, wanting to fill them up in lessons, arguing when not allowed.
i used to have a room with a water fountain next to it, and until we made a rule to not fill up in lesson time, it had a permanent que at it, all distracting our lesson and meaning we couldn’t have the door open.
The lost lesson time is crazy!

You’re a teacher and you can’t spell ‘queue’?! Blimey.

Oh yes!
oops :)

I agree with you.

I too am from the generation who were not brought up to think they would die of dehydration if they were not constantly drinking water.

We had a glass of water with our school dinner and that was pretty much it. How did we all survive!

To all those talking about dehydration. Most children during a regular 8.30-3 school day are not dehydrated in the least. I don’t understand why so many posts are talking about dehydration. Signs are dark urine, bad vice-like headaches, a dry mouth.

But even if they were a bit dehydrated, the body can tolerate mild dehydration extremely well.

It’s all distraction and avoidance. Water bottles are modern day fidget spinners or fiddle toys.

Years ago women could not vote and child mortality was much higher and there were no vaccines, but somehow many people survived. Should we revert back to Victorian era or earlier because of that?

At school 30 years ago I could drink whenever I wanted, I cant remember anyone restricting when I could access my water.
It's also much hotter these days during autumn and summer.

Do you not think, though, that it would be useful for your children to learn a bit of forward planning and make a habit of going to the toilet at an appropriate and convenient time, rather than suddenly realise they are desperate and need to go at inappropriate and inconvenient times?

This doesn't just apply in school time, i.e. going at break time so they can last through the lessons. There must be lots of situations when this is a good idea:

• at the cinema go before the film starts so you won't have to nip out during the film and miss some and disturb other people in the same row
• before a long car journey
• at these public toilets now before we start the walk or you will be going behind the bushes

Of course if a child is absolutely desperate then I suppose they must let them go during a lesson, but surely you can see how schools will very strongly discourage it. Maybe you are right about your DC and they wouldn't take advantage of this, but no doubt loads of kids would abuse the privilege if they were allowed to go whenever.

Another one who approves, but reminded how we added square lemon and orange flavoured fizzy blocks to our water at school dinners. Obviously only we cool kids.

I don't have school age children, but I'm getting some insight into why so many adults seem unable to sit through a two hour film or meeting without shoving something into their mouth.