does your kid's school require them to wear jackets at recess?

[Anonymous]

only if they fell like it

[Anonymous]

If a kid took the jacket outside they had to wear it. (No parents screaming about a lost jacket)

There was a temperature cut off where everyone had to wear a jacket. I don't recall what it was.

I wouldn't be emailing the teacher.

[Anonymous]

If the weather is borderline, my kids will leave their jacket at home so they can’t be forced to wear it.

In our case, it’s teacher dependent, not school.

[Anonymous]

The point is most parents don't send their children to school with proper outdoor gear so the school has to make one-size-fits-all rules.

[Anonymous]

No one has died wearing a long sleeve shirt and jacket in 50 degree weather

No one has died wearing a short sleeve shirt in 50 degree weather

You are talking about 30 freaking minutes. Whatever the rule is, if it makes the classroom run less chaotic, who the F cares?

Choose appropriate battles OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would send an email to the teacher saying "Please allow my daughter to wear her jacket or not as she wishes."

I doubt it's really a "rule."

Don't be THAT mom. Just don't. On the list of 3,592 things the teacher needs to do that day, reading an email like this and having to debate whether to ignore you or give your snowflake a special circumstance, should not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Mine doesn’t have this rule. My Kindergartener never wants to wear her jacket and when I ask her what her teacher says she tells me ,”Nothing.” So I send it in her backpack in case they ever say anything but the staff has not made her wear it. They have recess at 10:30 AM and went on a field trip to a pumpkin patch and it was pretty chilly but she wasn’t forced to wear the jacket.

[Anonymous]

To the person commenting about “snow flakes”, please go back to your hole in Alabama and leave the real discussion to DC parents who actually care about their kids.

[Anonymous]

If they get overheated and puke or pass out because they were forced to wear a coat the teacher will learn the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would send an email to the teacher saying "Please allow my daughter to wear her jacket or not as she wishes."

I doubt it's really a "rule."

Some schools do have "rules" about it. Your kid needs to follow them like everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We went to a school function tonight, and lemme tell you, it's freezing out! And windy, to boot. If I were a teacher, I wouldn't have let kids outside without a jacket on.

No, it wasn’t freezing.

Just because you are cold doesn't mean others are. I always ran hot even as a child but my parents were always cold and made me wear a coat. I always resented it so I don't do that to my kids.

Now if my kids are over 5 and not dressed appropriately for the weather I don't want to hear complaints. I make suggestions but if they choose not to wear a coat they are not allowed to complain if they become cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an elementary school teacher, I can tell you there's no winning on jackets. If you let them leave them in the classroom and it's too cold outside, then it's a long time to be cold. If you make them bring them, and let them take them off, then they get lost and the time suck is huge. If you make them wear them they're overheated and uncomfortable.

A better solution in this in between weather is for parents to send a sweatshirt, or put them in a long sleeve shirt, or something else that's actually appropriate for the weather, rather than giving us the choice between a T-shirt and a winter coat.

+1 and the PP didn't even mention overheated classrooms in winter. As parents the best we can do is to send them with options and layers. Think sleeveless vests, sweatshirts and light jackets.

This doesn’t work either. Our lost and found has exploded with these layers as the kids take off the layers just like a jacket and leave these items all over the playground, field, and outside benches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an elementary school teacher, I can tell you there's no winning on jackets. If you let them leave them in the classroom and it's too cold outside, then it's a long time to be cold. If you make them bring them, and let them take them off, then they get lost and the time suck is huge. If you make them wear them they're overheated and uncomfortable.

A better solution in this in between weather is for parents to send a sweatshirt, or put them in a long sleeve shirt, or something else that's actually appropriate for the weather, rather than giving us the choice between a T-shirt and a winter coat.

+1 and the PP didn't even mention overheated classrooms in winter. As parents the best we can do is to send them with options and layers. Think sleeveless vests, sweatshirts and light jackets.

This doesn’t work either. Our lost and found has exploded with these layers as the kids take off the layers just like a jacket and leave these items all over the playground, field, and outside benches.

Same at the school where I work.

Schools can't win!!

[Anonymous]

Send a lighter layer like a fleece instead of a coat when it is in the 40s/50s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would send an email to the teacher saying "Please allow my daughter to wear her jacket or not as she wishes."

I doubt it's really a "rule."

You doubt us a rule?! But the teacher said it was and Parents on here saying every school has a similar policy. People like you are wouldn’t make the non-teaching parts of teaching so hard.