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.

Your link doesn’t say that sipping water is better, it just recommends it. Having a sip or two of water before the start of a lesson is absolutely fine - leave the bottles at the side of the classroom. There’s barely enough room on the desks as it is, spilled water is bloody annoying when it ruins someone’s work and it’s yet another distraction that kids fiddle with. My kids in class don’t have their equipment out until it’s needed - anyone who finds they need something to fiddle with can have a piece of blu tac. Try it, it’s very therapeutic!

I don’t ever remember having water in lessons when I was a child at primary - we just had a drink at breaks and lunch and then when we got home.
so, they’ll have a drink before starting, break at around 10:30 and then lunch at 12:00 and then another break most likely at around 2:15 and then home at 3:15. If this is correct, they’ll go at most 1.5 hours without a drink? Doesn’t seem like a “prison” to me.
Honestly, some kids really take the biscuit with free tying up for water constantly, and then need the toilet every 30 mins. I don’t see why kids need to be stuck to water bottles constantly now.
I would check the truth in what has been said though.

If its recommending sipping presumably it's in preference to gulping large amounts. I would recommend bottles that have tops on so they don't spill. Many schools insist on equipment put on the desk immediately at the start of the class. I don't need to fiddle with bluetac thanks, and I have a lovely bottle of water on my desk.
Sipping vs. Gulping: HOW you drink may matter more than HOW MUCH https://share.google/8KGlo4SuNfnHMhpwi

As I said earlier-we are so lucky that this,frankly, bonkers debate is one we have the luxury of taking part in.
Incidentally, are today’s well hydrated children better at concentrating and healthier than those of 25 years ago?

Judging by how many poorly behaved children there are in classes nowadays, who are completely unable to concentrate/sit still/follow instructions, I’m going to go with the theory that maybe constant access to water isn’t the brain boost some people think it is 😅

Let's be honest, the desire to reduce access to water is nothing to do with the health or environment of the child but all to do with making the teachers job easier.

It’s also about educating children. The education of other children is often ruined by trouble makers or those messing around.
Teachers being unable to do their jobs means children’s education suffers.

And you believe access to water is the only thing that will enable disruptive kids to disrupt! Disruptive kids will disrupt regardless.

It’s a massive issue in schools nowadays. If it wasn’t, no-one would be bothered. Are you a teacher?
Go in and teach a class of 30 teenagers all sucking on water bottles, spilling water, spraying each other with water, wanting to fill them up, needing the toilet, scrunching the bottles and making noise…
The average lesson is an hour. There is absolutely no problem with expecting a healthy child to wait an hour to have a drink.

You seem determined to make schools out to be evil prisons. The reality is that schools are there to educate children, it’s not a baby sitting service.
Don’t like the rules of that school? Find a different school.

Oh FFS. Don’t be bloody dramatic.

It probably IS about trying to control all the little darlings whose parents happily encourage them to do that the hell they want. And I agree with them.
who’d want to be a teacher nowadays.

No one has mentioned that stupid pursuit where kids flip the bottle and try to make it land upright.

They get so engrossed in it, as though it’s an incredibly visually exciting, high-stakes adventure.

Yes i'm in a lot of schools. Reduced access to toilets is a massive issue - actually forcing kids to not drink because they can't use a toilet. With the highest levels of ill health, absence and poor mental health in kids trust me, water bottles are the very least of the problems. The ed system has been slowly deteriorating for years, increased funding and putting kids wellbeing front and centre would be a good start.

No-one is forcing kids not to drink. Are you a Daily Mail journalist in your spare time? 😂You are very outraged!

Telling children they can have a drink before and after lessons and at break and lunch, but not in lessons, is not forcing kids not to drink.
Telling a child they can’t drink from the second they walk in the gates at 8.30am until they leave at 3.30pm, well then I might agree with you.

Literally NO school bans drinking all day.

Can you read and comprehend?

Better than you it seems!

Unless they have a medical condition or perhaps the two weeks it’s close to 30 degrees, having a drink before school, at break and at lunchtime is fine. Water bottles weren’t a thing until 20 years ago, we all were fine with a drinking fountain at break and panda pops at lunch, mmm cherryade I work in a shop and don’t have a drink except on my scheduled breaks, absolutely fine

Apparently not.

You’re the one bleating on about children’s mental health, increased absences and the failing education system… on a thread about water bottles 😂

Please try and read what was written.

Do private schools have all these problems with water bottles?

the obsession with carrying a water bottle around makes me probably unreasonably irritated. Our medical students carry them round the ward when they are shadowing so they get forgotten and tripped up on as no where to put them - it’s a clinical space and your kidneys will survive, and adjusting to different levels is actually their purpose as the older renal doctors like to say. I have primary aged children and I can imagine them getting their bottles in and out, flipping and fiddling with them is annoying; they have plenty of breaks to use them. My kids don’t carry a water bottle around the house and mainly choose to drink at meal time or get a cup when they are thirsty

Luckily, my school doesn’t insist on everything being put on desks before starting lessons, but it’s good to see you want your bottle on your desk to fiddle with eh?

How do you ‘force a child not to drink’?

You know the word 'force' has a variety of meanings due to context?
The impact of not being able to use the toilet compels kids to not drink enough.

Turning to sarcasm because you have nothing else.