Children not allowed squash in school !

[TW]Fox;24545078 said:
Isn't water a pretty fundamental one though? It's not as if he doesn't like blackberry juice or something which is a pretty easy one to just leave out :p
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I never really liked water on its own as a child, drink it fine now but at the time wasn't really too fond of it, possibly due to the water around here having quite a metallic taste to it.

Personally think its a ludicrous rule, my parents would have taken me out of a school stipulating stuff like that and I'd probably do the same unless there was a real big problem with it if I had kids of my own.
 
MrMoonX said:
they cant make him throw away his drink, most squash these days is no added sugar so I dont really see why they being all pedantic, Id complain to the headteacher
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Reason for the no added sugar rubbish is because its already packed full of natural sugars etc...Robinsons, cheap brands etc...all the same.

Read the label, its still no good.
 
Poo in their letter box?

Burn the place down?

Daily mail time?

Or ring the school and ask what the fiddle sticks is going on?
 
Sorry just to clear up as well , they are not allowed flavoured water or any fizzy .

We tried putting his juice in a metal flask and the other kids told of him as they could smell it .

Fox - I think that's the most stupid thing ever to come out of your fingers and you should try again lol
 
I work in a secondary school, and our rule is - in classrooms, water in clear plastic bottle only. We permit flavoured water, but other than that, it gets confiscated. It'll be in the school rules somewhere, which you will have agreed to as part of your home-school agreement.

Reasoning for water only is easy - hard to mask anything else in there (even flavoured water), whereas squash or similar could quite easily contain lots of sugar or similar that may affect a child's attention span.

Not saying its morally right, just that there's little you can do about it (unless enough parents kick up a fuss) other than get flavoured water.
 
The school I send my 3 to, has the same principles......Its all to do with healthy eating and drinking....(sugars/sweeteners)

The way round it is to get 'Still' Flavoured Water,
 
God, I'm pleased I went to school when I did.

Fizzy drinks, coffee, chips, cheese, sausage rolls etc, the student had the responsibility of what to eat......

Heck we could even run around outside, kick footballs, play fight and the school was open when it snowed.
 
It only came into effect beginning of last week so I haven't agreed to anything .

He cant have flavoured water either as the other kids smell it and tell and that still gets taken off him and they tip it away !

Why is flavoured water any different from a very diluted juice ?

Flavoured water
sugar per 100ml = 0.2g
cal per 100ml = 4

Juice
sugar per 100ml = 0.8g
cal per 100ml = 11
 
MrMoonX said:
they cant make him throw away his drink, most squash these days is no added sugar so I dont really see why they being all pedantic, Id complain to the headteacher
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Yeah.
No added sugar still has sugars, you've just been caught by the marketing monsters.

Sugar frequencies are what cause tooth decay, many schools have a healthy meals policy now. Granted with a meal, usually the child should be allowed to drink whatever they like as there will be sugars present within most meals, its the in-between meals that we want only water to be taken.

So break time and between meals water, with meals, basically whatever you like. Don't be caught into thinking 'no added sugar' won't damage teeth, it will.
 
All this healthy eating stuff is crap :p. Luckily I was able to leave school and go to the shops at lunch the year they started getting rid of chips, chicken burgers etc on a daily basis :D.
 
Skywalker said:
It only came into effect beginning of last week so I haven't agreed to anything .
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Home School agreement will have a clause in it allowing them to change it as they see fit without notice.

Admittedly, this is more in case some sort of seemingly common sense idea has to be spelled out (e.g. no attack dogs in school) than something like this, but the principle is the same.
 
My daughters school (infant) is just the same, the list of things they are not allowed actually leaves me pondering every week as to what to buy her for her lunches. No crisps, chocolate, cheese spread, peanut butter, juice, not the same sandwich twice in a week.

Yet when she has school dinners its your usual pizza, chips, and so on. I think there pushing people to pay for school dinners as its easier.

Edit. when I was at school, finished in 2001. I used to go in and just get 3 puddings for lunch lol. mmmm Toothpaste tart
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Yeah.
No added sugar still has sugars, you've just been caught by the marketing monsters.

Sugar frequencies are what cause tooth decay, many schools have a healthy meals policy now. Granted with a meal, usually the child should be allowed to drink whatever they like as there will be sugars present within most meals, its the in-between meals that we want only water to be taken.

So break time and between meals water, with meals, basically whatever you like. Don't be caught into thinking 'no added sugar' won't damage teeth, it will.
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Fancy answering a simple question about work over private mesage? ^^
 
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