You know its still winter right?

[Bosch]

I get that all the time. Born and raised in Kansas (hot, humid summers, cold, if not horrible, winters). I moved out to California after the Air Force. It does not get cold.

It gets chilly. Enough that I might have to wear a light jacket, but it does not get cold. Not here, anyway.

Even where I lived in CA it didn't get really cold that often, only time it got down into the 30-20's was at night when the winds would pick up and that would be for a week at the most. I worked a graveyard shift at the time and it was the wind not the temp that had me breaking out the heavy coat. I hate wind more than cold.

Even up here in Washington a 40 degrees feels like summer after dealing with snow and temps in the teens and 20's for weeks..

[PhotoChick]

Sad thing is that my eldest son (12) will take a zip up hoody to school (lockers aren't big enough for actual coats and they aren't allowed to wear them btwn classes) but refuses to wear it!

I don't get it, is there no other place to store a real jacket? What if it snows? They expect kids not to wear a real jacket?

[Stormraven]

Even where I lived in CA it didn't get really cold that often, only time it got down into the 30-20's was at night when the winds would pick up and that would be for a week at the most. I worked a graveyard shift at the time and it was the wind not the temp that had me breaking out the heavy coat. I hate wind more than cold.

Even up here in Washington a 40 degrees feels like summer after dealing with snow and temps in the teens and 20's for weeks..

The light jacket is for when it's running 20-30 with wind. It takes a lot more than that to get me in a heavy coat.

[Luna Baby]

I don't get it, is there no other place to store a real jacket? What if it snows? They expect kids not to wear a real jacket?

Nope. Their lockers for middle school are tiny. Barely large enough to contain their textbooks. Most of the kids around here wear the lined hoodies from Aeropostle and American Eagle during the winter. When they go to the Trojan Academy for their AP classes they have a pedway they travel in instead of going outside. There has only been 1 day when they had to go to the Academy via the outdoors and it had something to do with there being a leak in the glass in the pedway.

It's definitely not the ideal situation for kids (in our minds) however, we don't have the snowfall now like we did when I was a kid. We're lucky to get a dusting up to 1 inch accumulation now. When I grew up, we got 3-6 inches often.

My little one in the 3rd grade can wear a coat as they have cubbies with coat hooks. He just chooses not to. I think he's just hot natured and a little bit of cold doesn't snap his brain into thinking he needs to take the coat with him.

[Apathy]

It's always great to make fun of warm weather people who think 50-60 is cold. Those are the same people who freak out about a light dusting of snow. It's only an issue when it's a foot deep and not a second before.

Of course, I live in Indiana. People in Colorado would laugh at our "snow."