Coats on at school

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Flyhigher · 17/11/2023 17:54

Teachers seem to be excessively cracking down on anyone wearing coats in school.
Can anyone explain why? The problem is the school is cold and admittedly they do wear short skirts. But staff aren't cracking down on the short skirts.

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Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 18/11/2023 07:56

@Coldia

Yes, I can leave my coat in the Staffroom too. But our kids are also allowed to use the back of their tutor room as a bag drop and leave their coats there. But this only works if they have cheaper coats that they don’t mind going missing.

The issue occurs when parents give in to moaning and buy expensive items that the kids want to parade about and are surgically attached to. And because it was expensive mum and dad tell them they have (from home) permission to wear it where ever they please.

When you have 1500 kids in one building the rules have to be the same for everyone for fairness- especially to create better social equality. The uniform makes everyone to same so that the focus can be learning, not showing off your bling and social status.

annahay · 18/11/2023 08:09

Flyhigher · 17/11/2023 18:55

Can see the sleeping bag issue. Yes.
It's a nightmare for my slim 16DD who is then wet and cold all day due to rain and asks for lifts.
I think check out the cloakroom situation people before you commit to a school! It's a sign of under resourcing!

Cloakrooms for 1200 c

annahay · 18/11/2023 08:10

Sorry! Baby swiped my phone before I'd finished!

The idea of cloakrooms for 1200 children when we can't afford teachers and TAs seems like a misappropriation of resources to me.

WhatNoRaisins · 18/11/2023 08:11

The problem with a cloakroom is location. We could request a locker but it wouldn't necessarily be where you needed it, especially for those who had to get the bus.

annahay · 18/11/2023 08:15

Coldia · 17/11/2023 23:57

But I never need my coat inside and I am always too warm.

Presumably you also have somewhere to put your coat other than your bag.

I would say you are unusual in being able to fit your coat into your bag. I can't fit mine into my work bag. Nor do I need to because at my workplace, same as yours, I have somewhere appropriate to put it, unlike your students.

Btw I would always prioritise buying a winter coat for my child over buying the impractical dress shoes that school requires me to spend money on in order that he can access his education.

Edited

We have 4 coat pegs in the staff room for over 100 staff. My only option is to have my coat on the back of my chair- which then drags on the floor and gets filthy.

Pewpewbarneymcgrew · 18/11/2023 08:19

If they leave stuff in cloakrooms then it gets pinched. Ours have lockers but they like to show off expensive coats - Canada goose, moncler etc and use them to hide phones and vapes.
if your dd is that cold tell her to put a base layer on

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 18/11/2023 08:28

@annahay

Absolutely! I think parents often envision something the size of a primary school or their open plan office and not the common reality- something a cross between a battery farm and a Victorian prison with 60’s west/ facing windows which is often hotter than the inside of the sun in summer and muggier than the Amazon when all the windows are closed in winter but with added smells 💨

They also under estimate the wild cunning of a teen who would really rather be at home playing Xbox. In my experience it goes like this: late because in toilet, sat in coat doing nothing/ argument about taking coat off/ reluctantly gets out book/ forgot book/ short snooze/ wild conversation across room/ the sulks for being asked to do anything/ asks to go to toilet again because it will waste another fifteen minutes = a grand total of ten minutes actual work in an hour lesson.

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