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

sarahk100574

balletshoes wrote: »

I have been informed of the no-coat phenonmenon 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:.

"The no-coat phenomenon"......laughed so hard i nearly choked!! :rotfl::rotfl: My daughter has just started at High School this week and her school make them put coats in lockers or a bag so she has refused to wear one after first day too!

vik6525

I know that my son leaves the house with a coat on.
Whether or not hes still wearing it by the time he reaches the bus stop is an ENTIRELY different story however......

midnightraven3

not allowed at my sons school, at all
they have a blazer, and the head stands at the gate each morning making sure full uniform is worn be each, and no coats

mine needs to take 2 trains to get there, so its a lengthy journey, especially in the winter here, which is really september to may:rotfl:

*Louise*

Spendless wrote: »

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.

Yes he does - but only because I make him...he would happily go off in just his shirt/tie or his lightest jacket whatever the weather.

*Louise*

midnightraven3 wrote: »

not allowed at my sons school, at all
they have a blazer, and the head stands at the gate each morning making sure full uniform is worn be each, and no coats

mine needs to take 2 trains to get there, so its a lengthy journey, especially in the winter here, which is really september to may:rotfl:

That doesn't sound very reasonable - what about when it snows?

victory

yes he does under duress, wore it yesterday because it was lashing and has lost it:eek: hope it is still there at school as it is brand new:D

Luciferswench

Mine is in secondary school and refuses to wear a coat mind my 5 year old also refuses to wear a coat :O
With my eldest its the bother of having to carry it all day as it cannot be worn indoors, no pegs or lockers either so its simpler not to bother. Though he did go in a jacket this morning as it was raining.

onlyroz

When I was at school the cloakrooms were taken away in my third-year (to make space for extra classrooms and eating areas) and were replaced by a row of pegs outside each classroom. Lockers are a distant memory - they disappeared years before I started at the school, and not even my elder brother can remember them. I *do* remember lugging a huge bag around with me, stuffed with about 10 text-books, PE-kit, football boots etc etc - and I'm fairly sure that I wore a coat most days apart from in the height of summer (because this was back in the days when we actually had a summer in this country).

pigpen

None of my 5 gone/going through wear/wore a coat.. nor did my brother.. I did and lugged it about all day.. I like warmth lol.

If they want to be cold then fine.. so long as they dont moan to me.

Boys tend to wear woolly hats here and the girls have umbrellas and the boys are more likely to jog home in the rain so are less wet.

shellsuit

Neither of my teens wear a coat to school, but they do wear blazers.

They don't want to have the lug the coats around so they go without.

When it's freeeeeeeezing snowy and icey cold they will wear one with some gloves, but that's about it.