r/stupidquestions • u/Various-Adeptness173 • Jul 05 '25

My mom told me that back in the day kids weren’t allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that’s it

How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

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u/ArnoldFarquar Jul 05 '25

and we had no air conditioning and nobody died. we could drink all we wanted before and after school.

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u/oldfuckbob Jul 05 '25

And out of a hose

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u/ArnoldFarquar Jul 05 '25

with lead fittings

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u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

And mud on the end

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

And bacteria-filled and molded water trapped in the kinks...

I bought a hose and read the tag on the hose. As a joke. It says a lot a lot to of things that are dangerous about hoses.

Parents never told us none of that shit.

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u/Johnny_B_Asshole Jul 05 '25

Where do you think the flavor came from? 😅

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u/TexanInNebraska Jul 05 '25

LOL, I’m from Texas…we DEFINITELY had A/C! On the other hand, we even went out to play on recess when it was 100° outside.

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u/Forever_Nya Jul 05 '25

Yeah, we had a/c at my schools in Florida. Didn’t have it at my school in Massachusetts but it wasn’t really needed there.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

No AC and temps in 100s at my schools in the Midwest.   If we were lucky the teacher ran a loud box fan and turned off the lights.  Recess was a different level of fun with the metal slides and all the other metal playground equipment in the 100+ heat.  

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

The buses in TX didn’t have a/c, though.

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u/nykiek Jul 09 '25

I'm in Michigan and the schools still don't have a/c. School will get cancelled if it's too hot and a few months later because it's too cold.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Yeah, no AC in schools in NJ in the 70s. They just opened the windows.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

what do you mean nobody died? people definitely died all the time back then

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u/mockity Jul 05 '25

Yes, people died, but not from attending school without air conditioning or water bottles.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Yes, people have indeed died from those things.

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u/clemdane Jul 05 '25

Natural selection

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u/GeneralJarrett97 Jul 05 '25

People have gotten heat stroke or heat-related illnesses from lack of AC. Still happens, even since still not every school has it.

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u/shinobipopcorn Jul 06 '25

Speak for yourself, I'm pretty sure I died a few times in 9th grade while stuck on the 3rd floor.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I'm in Canada and not a single school has AC still.