Does your Secondary school aged child wear a coat to school?

Spendless

4th day of Secondary school for my eldest and he's set off refusing to wear a coat. He said he would if it was raining, but when I went outisde to show him it was, he said spitting didn't count! 5 mins later after he'd set off it was raining quite heavily. He catches a school bus, but it's a block away from where we live to catch it. School uniform is v necked jumper, shirt and tie. They don't wear blazers.

peachyprice

Mine didn't unless it was really bad weather i.e snowing, BUT they did wear blazers, so a bit different.

The reason they didn't like wearing coats, which may or may not be the same in your son's school, is that they don't have coat hooks so they had to carry them around all day.

CH27

My son only did last winter but they had blazers at his school.
They have nowhere to put them & carrying wet coats around all day is a pain in the rear end.

patchwork_cat

No never, neither of them have, even in snow and with frequent nagging. DD wears blazer, but DS didn't.

Auntie-Dolly

No - he'd rather stick pins in his eye! Too uncool I expect.

Darlyd

NO DD1 don't wear a coat either, she wear a shirt, v neck jumper and a blazer. I guess it's uncool too.

gonzo127

as above, no they dont tend to, and other than the above excuses/reasons dont you realise its cool to be 'hard' and not need a coat, and that now he is secondary school hes all grown up and knows best.... got to love em thou

mirrorimage0

my son has just started secodry school, i havent been able to get him in a coat for about 3 yrs now, at least when he was in juniors i could leave it on his peg incase he wanted it, now he is in seniors i have no hope lol but he does have a blazer, although says he wont wear the jumper as its optional, but we will see when it gets really cold lol

thegirlintheattic

Not so much uncool but most schools have no where to put them. Our kids are not allowed to even carry them in the corridors, they have to be put in a bag, now considering most of them don't bother bringing a bag...you can see the problem. Ours are also not allowed to put them on the backs of chairs in classrooms, must be out of sight unless outside or they will be confiscated.

cyclingyorkie

Ours weren't allowed to wear them in the building - in case they had knives in the pockets!

And this is one of the TOP secondary schools in York!

thatgirlsam

My dd doesn't wear a coat but carries a brolly in her bag if it rains - I expect that would be uncool for a boy though?

She has a locker to put stuff in so she could take a coat but it hasn't really been cold enough here for a coat yet this week

Spendless, how is he enjoying it? My dd has been buzzing the last couple of days, she said its much better than junior school!