Children not allowed squash in school !

Burnsy2023 said:
I agree but it's also naive to say that we should allow parents to give their children anything they want because some simply are ignorant to the fact that high fat/sugar foods are not good for anyone is large quantities. As most things, there is a middle ground which I think is probably the best approach.
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The only intervention a school should do is to educate the child and pass information onto the Parent via the child if it is necessary...it should not dictate responsibility.

Anything else should be up to qualified and experienced professionals in the field relevant to the concern.
 
Give him plain water or milk, along with whole fruits.

Drinks of pretty much any kind are unhealthy. When his metabolism slows down in a few years and he's too addicted to stop drinking this garbage, you'll feel sorry then.
 
My word - give up, no added sugar squash is bad for you...?! I've heard it all now!

A little bit of squash everyday isn't going to do any harm to anyone.
 
I drink squash all the time- and I like it pretty strong. 3-4 pints a day on average (probably). I can and will drink plain water, but I like squash, and fizzy drinks too. I've almost made it to the age of 35, and as far as I can tell, all of me is still working properly. I still have all my teeth, I'm a healthy weight, and physically fit.
So obviously, I must be immune to the lethal cocktail of chemicals I've been administering to myself for the last 30 years...
 
I'm glad schools are stepping up to the plate where parents are failing when it comes to children's health. The obesity epidemic is something that needs tackling and some parents are massively lacking in this regard.
 
School is for education and behavioural development, that's the fundamental basics of it.

I firmly believe that a school is there to develop a child academically and socially. I believe that it is there to positively inform both child and parent of physical development. Discipline is needed for emotional development (not physical abuse, it's too basic a "tool") and should be exercisable by a school.

When it comes to the childs physical development however, the school should be able to inform and advise only. Clearly they can limit what food and drink is available through their services, however if a parent wishes to send their child to school with a bit of a concentrated fruit juice mixed with water rather than just water that is their decision and it very well should be. Mandatory sports education is good, as long as the parents are well informed of the activities their children are being involved in.

Assuming the original story is as it is posted, you need to raise this through the PTA as the schools administration is over-stepping their mark in terms of what they should be doing and they need to be told so.
 
vicisthebest said:
Well, the white shirts that lots of children wear for school would be difficult to de-stain.

And of course not. But in my current classroom I have not had one child vomit in 4 years. I have had lots of spilt water bottles though.

Mainly I think schools say 'water only' because then it's one rule for everyone. You let people start bringing squash, and soon it would be, "what about cartons of ribena/fresh orange/fizzy flavoured water?" etc, and then the healthy choices we must teach children to make would be out of the window.
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The line between teaching kids about healthy choices and taking control away from parents has been well and truly crossed. It is not the schools place to force diet chices on parents.

WTF is the world coming to?
 
I think children drinking non sugary drinks can only be a good thing, we have a child obesity epidemic. it doesn't really matter who does it, be it the school or parents. It isn't like it costs the taxpayer lots of money for it to be enforced. In fact the reason it has to be water and not squash is probably because it is hard to enforce. If juice was allowed it would be hard to tell if a kid was drinking Fanta or orange squash, water only simply makes it easier for the teachers.
 
If I was in Primary School now instead of 20 years ago and this was happening to me then I would not have had a drink at all during school hours to the point of dehydration if water was the only option, even as a toddler I wouldn't drink water and this carried on until my late teens, but now I drink 3-4 pints of water a day as well as orange squash. I'm glad I wasn't put in this situation because if I was a parent and this happened to my child I'd be fuming due to my own experiences with this sort of thing while growing up.

I'd also go as far as saying under their own safeguarding guidelines it could be classed as a form of abuse if it happens regularly. If a child doesn't like water and because of some school rules their drink is confiscated and thrown away and the only option they're left with is water then that could be classed as form of abuse*

*Not my opinion, this is just how the people who come up with these guidelines think and the school has to follow these guidelines. I had to sit through 12 hours of this stuff about 9 months ago and one of the things they try to drill into you is that abuse isn't just limited to a paedo touching you or someone using their kid as a punching bag, it can be unintentional as well (i.e forcing them choose between drinking something they don't like or going without and of course if a child dislikes something enough they will choose to go without).

Guidelines for staff on Safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare.
Definitions:
• Protecting children from maltreatment
• Preventing impairment of children’s health or development.
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provisions of safe and effective care and undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.
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I suppose you could also turn this around and say that they are following the guidelines by making sure they aren't consuming unhealthy drinks (which I strongly disagree with in Skywalkers case), but unfortunately they aren't allowed common sense and are supposed to follow these things to the letter (which can be a problem if these guidelines are difficult to interpret and apply [see bullet point 3 :p])
 
Im not a parent....

Im quite confused as to why your kids wont drink water. Is this common? Did or do children simply die or dehydration every day because they wont drink water? Is this bad parenting?
 
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