A furious mother has decided to take her children out of PE lessons after their school closed changing rooms and insisted pupils wear their sports kit all day. Parents of students at Robertsbridge Community College, a secondary school north of Hastings, were told their children must now wear their PE kit into school on days they have sports lessons at the start of the new term. Mum-of-two Karen Davies raised her concerns about how this will affect children including her son and daughter William and Ninah Watson.
She said her son who is in Year 9 and her Year 8 daughter were uncomfortable in their other lessons when they had to wear “sweaty, dirty and wet” kit around school. “We are going into autumn and the weather is often wet and cold," said Ms Davies. "They will be wet, cold and muddy when going into other lessons like cooking.
“It is unhygienic and the children can’t wear their uniform with pride. “Trainers are not waterproof so the children will be walking around in wet shoes all day.” The school said it introduced the measure after “consideration and communication” with parents in July.
Mum Karen Davies said children have to wear 'wet, muddy and stinky' PE kit all day after their sports lessons (Image: Karen Davies) It said bringing PE kit into school and changing in and out of it is a “stressful experience” for some young people. But Ms Davies believes it is only a minority of pupils who would find using the changing rooms in school difficult. “.
