The water only rules. No juice.

[OnlyWantsOne]

It's there for a reason. Isn't it?

So why do some parents still send juice in bottles concealed as water for their children?

One child in my dd's class has juice. Every day. Her mother won't MAKE her have water because she doesn't feel she should have to.

Except dd and one other child I know of have been whining how it's not fair - how they want juice too etc etc etc and I've had enough.

Didn't want to post in AIBU but needed to vent.

and i would add to that, that it is the parent's decision what their child eats or drinks,. not the schools

Every day at work.

Snowball, i like your use of "comfort breaks". I will have to remember that next time i need the loo!

Schools are required to provide access to free, fresh drinking water throughout the day

sorry that should have been sent to mrz

I was being generous!
The view that children should have the same "rights" as adults is ludicrous, they are children for a reason, they should be treated as such.

Treated as children whilst still remembering they are human beings!

It is the schools choice what they drink in school.

I realise that I'm very old but when I was in primary we didn't even get water during the school day not even with lunch it was warm milk in the summer or frozen milk in the winter or nothing ... even when I started teaching there was a drinking fountain in the corridor accessible at playtime only.

What does NT stand for further up the thread?

And can someone explain for me the link between autism / ASD and the no water issue. Is it harder to get autistic / ASD children to drink water, or harder to explain the rules to them?

I think it is actually the LA ultimately. When i first raised the issue with the headteacher she admitted it was the LA and when she checked with them she found that she could not impose a water only hat came from her.

When I was at school we had the milk, which as mrz said, was warm in summer ( there was no fridge) and had to thaw out in the winter - I chose not to have it. We had water with school dinners. We did not have packed lunches - the choice was a school dinner or you went home for lunch. We were perfectly healthy.
Anyone would drink water if there was nothing else. I have once been in a position where I would have given everything I owned for water - only the once!

I know some of my children have flavoured water or very dilute juice in their water bottles but to me it's not a good use of my time and energy to police it. I simply don't allow any water bottles on tables, so no sticky spills (just lots of visits to the dentist perhaps caused by sucking sweet juice from a bottle)

Jeez, haven't read this and am usually very-pro schools' authority and teachers being in charge etc etc but dictating what children can drink is a bit ott.

What's wrong with diluted fruit juice? DS gets a cup about one third freshly sqqueezed apple juice to two thirds water and guzzles it down. He is far better hydrated than when I was in my water-only phase. He has no sweets, chocolate, squash or sugary biscuits/crisps so this is his only sweet indulgence.

We have a "water only" policy in our school. Parents break that rule and send in sticky drinks (disguised as water!) "just because."
We now have a major problem with ants. Thanks for that!

I'm surprised that people want their DCs teeth coated with sugar all day.

"Water only" policies don't come from the teachers; they come from the management. It's just the teachers who have to deal with the spills and ants.

I wouldn't be particularly fussed about children drinking sugar free cordial, but it's not my school's policy. I have to support my school's judgement, and so do the parents.

IMO, if a school has a policy, parents should work alongside the school rather than trying to get their children to be complicit in the rule breaking. If parents have such an issue with it, take it up with the head.

I have once allowed Lucozade, and that was for a child who had been off ill for days but came in to do his QCA tests. His mum told him it'd make his stomach better, and even though I didn't think it would, I allowed it as I didn't want to put him in a situation where he had to choose between me and his mum, especially when he was delicate.

DD2 will not drink water to the point of making herself ill.

I accept it is my fault, she BF forever and refused to drink milk. DH loathes cows milk too!

Therefore if I wanted peace in an evening or at night she got some of big sisters sugar free squash.

Unfortunately as a Y6 she is way way more stubborn than her sweet, but slightly wet HT.

She knew full well he'd give up moaning after a bit, he always does.
Me, I've long ago learnt to pick my battles.

I hope she realises that the senior school head isn't such a soft touch.

My DS2 has juice when it's a water only rule. However, that is on the school's advice, as he was becoming properly dehydrated. He has ASD and will refuse water to the point of severe dehydration (I got strict and he ended up on a drip!).

Some things aren't worth the risks. Do the other parents at the school know why DS2 is allowed juice? NO. Because it is none of their business, I don't have to explain to them about my DS2's SN's.

There may be a reason why this girl has juice, that you wouldn't be told.

Or, her mum is just a pushover. But the thing is, you can't possibly KNOW that there is no SN's complicating the situation.

Nope, even as a tiny baby DS2 wouldn't touch water. Which was to me, as I had two older DC and had never even bought squash!

He drank milk. And nothing else. But you can't send unrefrigerated milk into school in the height of summer, can you!

I think that by far the best way is to go back to no drinks in the classroom - the way it was-,and save all the aggro. They can have a drink, outside, at break.
I wouldn't think you could send unrefrigerated milk into school but that is what we all had when I was at school!