Mum takes 5 y/o out of school as he won't drink water!

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Anyone see this on GMTV this morning. A school in Yorkshire has introduced drinking water during the day (in lesson times), but this child won't drink water and his mum want him to be able to have jiuce instead. School has said no and so she has taken him out of school as a protest.

Is she being just a bit ott or do you think that it is acceptable for her to take him out, as she isnt getting her own way? Discuss!

That's what I do twig. I also lie and say that he has to have morning milk. He knows that some children don't though. And I just say "oh I wonder why" and change the subject.

i think the kids nowadays are lucky, we never got to drink in class don't know how we survived this long without drinking all day at school!

in may house, unpopular decisons are explained thus:

me: yes but waffle waffle nice pleasant voice
girls: arrrrgh not fair angry whiney voice
me: yes, but waffle waffle more explaining in impatient voice
girls: whingy whingy whinge
me: BECAUSE I SAID SO
girls: quiet whinges as they stomp off

Hassled - in DS's school the reception teacher regularly accosted cheating Mums over juice disguised in water bottles! Part of the problem was that none of the kids with contraband juice could keep quiet about it, and kept tellin their friends that they had juice.

Well, as a principle I do think she should be allowed to take him out - I don't think schools should be prisons and parents should have sovereignty over their children, not head teachers.

I do think this particular woman is being a nob though. Barking.

sometimes greeny I just can't wait till your child finally reaches school age and you realise that, uncomfortable though it is, you have to start letting go small amounts of your control

But I still can't see most private schools allowing children to drink juice in class! Ours certainly doesn't!

I gather she thinks private schools will allow her to do what she pleases because she iwill be paying. LOL! What a silly woman!

oh I can't wait to start blaming school for things

Miss Bartholomew says you can't have CocoPop Chocolate Munchers, you must have these instead

Greeny - I too await the school that has 29 other parents who would share your views on what their children can do. I hope that you're planning to home-ed, as it sounds as if that would suit better!

You'd be surprised how controlling I am not, if you met me, Twiglett

I have never interfered with the nirsery's policies on discipline or anything else. And they feed him chocolate cake, and squash, AND they do time out. With an egg timer

I do think parents should be able to take their children out of school without permission from teh head teacher though.

Much fun to be had olive.

Blu. I'm in Germany. I don't think they're allowed to drink anything during class. No idea really. They have school 8am-1pm and have 2 breaks of I think 10 minutes when they can eat so I think that's the only time they drink. They drink whatever you've given them. It isn't monitored. You can also pay for them to have either a carton of milk or chocolate and I think they get given it in the second break.

Bit in the dark about how the school day is organised TBH.

I would like to meet you greeny .. I like you

Well, obviously she should be allowed to take her child out of school and either find an alternative school (and I think Hulababy is right) or else to Home Ed - if she really wishes to stick to her priorities about her child's education being the consumption of juice during lessons.

In fact if such a silly parent had a child at my DS's school, I would probably be glad to see the back of them!

I do agree that this particular mother is being a prat and probably would be better off Home Ed-ing. Not sure about the little boy though

Ssshake - well this woman's issue is about drinks being consumed within the classroom during lessons.

well at least they aren't drinking filtered coffee like they do in Sweden according to some other thread we had.

yeah i saw this and thought 'what a prat'. she had that 'don't you argue with me' attitude. she was very defensive and unwilling to consider that perhaps her son was a spoilt brat who would just have to lump it.

so is she going to follow him through life removing him from situations where he isn't getting his own way?

"my child won't drink water, i have tried". pah, don't give them squash in the first place, then they don't know any different!

The boarding school I went to (on exchange) in Germany had a bar which served beer etc in the evenings, and puils were allowed to smoke, even in their rooms

It was great

oliveoil, I am liking the word nobboid, and this woman appears to be one.

think the smoking rooms will be at an end soon. The govt. is introducing a smoking ban in public places so I think schoolchildren will have to smoke out on the playground/in the courtyard. The beer should still be available though.

lol @ nobboid

I think nobboid was a cod original but I am claiming it