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

sassyblue

Don't be silly mum, why would you want to ruin their street cred by putting a warm comfy coat on them?

Besides, everyone knows you don't feel the cold outside when you're a teenager yet come inside you need the heating on because it's so COLD.

gratefulforhelp_2

At the secondary school where I work, even the "coolest" kids wear coats.

Ask him what he will do if the fire bell goes and he has to stand outside for 30 minutes plus!

Aimless

Ours have banned bags from classrooms, so it is pay for a locker or leave your stuff unattended in a heap somewhere with all the others who haven't got one. The coat went twice this week because I ordered it, I was distracted this morning so of course it is still here. Not his nice warm respectable coat though, only a scruffy, worn parka style thing. And then generally without the removable lining in.

Februarycat

My son has just finished 6th form and the whole time he was at senior school I think he wore a coat a couple of times and that was probably last year with the bad snow. He said there is no where to leave your coat as you move around for classes and it was too far to walk to his locker to leave it. In the end I gave up telling him to take a coat

Kaz2904

It's appalling isn't it that we expect our children to carry so much stuff around with them during their school day. We at least have somewhere to keep our stuff when we arrive at our workplace and rightly so. Can you imagine the riot if adults weren't allowed to have coats over the back of their chairs but were also not given anywhere to hang them up? There would be tribunals and all sorts.
When I went to secondary school we had lockers at the back of our tutor room. We put our coats in there at the beginning of the day and got them out at the end to save us carrying them around. When I moved to a different school, they had a cloak room instead. Rule was nothing valuable unless you were happy to have it stolen.
The shools had rules that you weren't allowed to be inside unless it was dangerous weather so I can't see how they would be allowed to enforce the (unwritten) no coat rules.
Can't see me being very happy with this when DD starts secondary, we've had some bad winters here and she's not going out in -10 degrees without a coat on!

gingin_2

I wondered last year, when it was snowy, why all the kids were walking to school, in the snow, in sweatshirts and now DS has started I see that they have a no coats inside school, whatsoever rule.

barbiedoll

My son's secondary school has a cloakroom and they can leave coats, PE bags, sports equipment, etc there all day. Yet my son still refuses to wear his expensive school coat. The latest excuse?.......It's too much bother having to wait in a queue to get it out of the cloakroom at the end of the day. I wouldn't mind but he stays behind to play table tennis each night, there are no queues by the time he finishes! :mad:

Every time he gets a cold, I rant and rave about how it's his own fault for not dressing properly for the weather! (Even though I know that is complete cobblers! :rotfl:)

Spendless

Thanks for the replies. :beer: Seems like there's little point in arguing then. I've just asked and apparantly it is a lack of coat pegs, and he doesn't want to leave it all day.

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

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.

This is certainly the case BUT he isn't helping himself either. PE kit is short sleeved top, long sleeved top, shorts, football boots, shin pads and trainers, so when I asked for what days he played football so he could leave the football boots,shin pads and one of the tops at home, he had no idea!

pigpen wrote: »

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.

Woolly hats. Thank you. That's easy enough to sort. I had considered sticking a lightweight jacket into his bag as a 'humour mum' coat but that will probably go unworn too, but a hat will keep the rain off a little bit at least.

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

At the secondary school where I work, even the "coolest" kids wear coats.

Ask him what he will do if the fire bell goes and he has to stand outside for 30 minutes plus!

He'd just point out that unless the firebell went off whilst he was standing where his coat was hung, he wouldn't be able to go get it anyway. I'm not overly concerned about him being cold. He's a warm-bodied child, always was even as a baby, it's more the being wet in clothes you've got to stay in. I set off 5 mins after he did to take DD to breakfast club when it started raining heavily and the jacket I had on got wet thru. He has to keep his school jumper on all day.

Spendless

thatgirlsam wrote: »

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!

Same here. He loves it. Though there's been some bizarre twists. He dislike his Science teacher (his fav subject) and strangely ,considering he told me he was an Atheist from the age of 8/9 loves RE. DD told me that he's said to her it was because he likes sitting being taught about mythical and imaginery things (rolls eyes). He's also setting off for school at 7.30 for a school that's 1/2 an hour walk that doesn't start till 8.50, just getting the earliest school-bus he can. No idea why, either the novelty of travelling on buses or to socialise before school starts as they don't get much of a luunch-break.

Plans_all_plans

My husband's 27 and he seems to think that wearing a coat/taking an umbrella is some sort of crime for a man! I don't know where he's got it from. At a push, he'll take a coat if I pester him about it, but I have NEVER seen him use an umbrella. I say to him "you'll look more of a prat shivering and wet, than if you take a coat/brolly" but he doesn't listen. Bizarre! Must be cos he's a Northerner!