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

Mrs_Arcanum

DD doesn't (has brolly) DS does. Problem is they have no where to store coats so end up being lugged around.

The new year 7's are often referred to as turtles as their back packs are so big (to take all the stuff their teachers & parents insist they need). Year 8's have usually weeded this down & have smaller bags.

Threebabes

This annoyed me so much with DS when he started the comp (hes gone into Yr11). He again will only wear a coat if its snowing/heavy rain/freezing cold. My daughter has just started and Im awaiting the delivery of her new black school coat so shes not worn a coat this week. It poured down on Tuesday as well. They wear polo shirts and sweatshirts. To think for the first 11 years of their lives, you wrap them up and it goes all out the window....

MX5huggy

They wont wear goose fat soaked vests either, the youth of today, no idea.

rachbc

only with extreme nagging - Though now he's spent his birthday money on an overprice cagoul (ha ha how old do I sound??) he's keener

moomoomama27

My DD only wears a coat if its really cold or heavy rain, she wears a balzer over the top of a shirt/tie/vnexk jumper, so the blazer is like a coat! If it's spitting she'll just take a brolly! She refuses a waterproof coat amyway, it's not fashionable enough, so has a woll fitted belred coat, so tbh not alot different from just a blazer and brolly!

balletshoes

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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.

I have been informed of the no-coat phenomenon by my work colleague, who has had 2 kids go through secondary school. Both hers (a boy and a girl) refused to wear their coats unless it was the depths of winter, for 2 or 3 years. Apparently, both of them re-found an attachment to coats for school when they went into year 10:rotfl:.

RazWaz

My school was V neck Jumpers too (left about 6 years ago), and I don't think I even owned a coat through the 5 years of school, never mind wearing one. It's pretty normal, none of my friends ever had one with them either.

FBaby

I have to say, coming from another country, this is one of things that surprised me the most when i first arrived in this country, seeing all those kids walking in freezing temperature with so little on! Now I am a mum of a DD who just started secondary school and I accept that's just the way it is! In the end, it is not a health hazard, you are not more likely to catch a cold not wearing a coat, more a question of comfort. If they prefer to be cold to be cool (no punt intended), then it's their problem! I supposed your body gets used to it so in the end, whereas we, parents, would be freezing, they are not?

Gillyx

I wore a blazer when I was at school, with a cardigan and shirt, but neither the cardigan or blazer were buttoned. My school was another of the "no outdoor coats on within the school building" so it was a choice between being freezing or carrying your coat about all day. I didn't want to be cold, but the other choice was rubbish.

flea72

no coats here either, nor blazers - just a school jumper

however, the school deters children from bringing coats in, as they have nowhere to store them during the day and say they are too bulky to hang on the backs of chairs. also most kids cant be bothered to carry around a coat as well as all their books and bags

girls will use a brolly though if its raining, as having a 'bad hair day' would be the ultimate sin. boys usually either get wet, or use the excuse of sharing a girls brolly as a reason to get intimate lol

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