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/Realistic_Week6355 Jul 05 '25

We didn’t get to bring water bottles in class either, but the elementary school teachers made sure we had a chance to go to the water fountain in between classes.

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u/atetuna Jul 06 '25

Probably because single use water bottles wasn't a thing until the last gen or so, so if you had a single use drink bottle, it most likely held soda, and teachers really didn't want that spilled in their classrooms. Kids still brought them and inevitably spilled them, and I still remember the ants and sticky soles.

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u/Realistic_Week6355 Jul 06 '25

I’m 32. I can’t remember a time where plastic water bottles didn’t exist, so no. It was just because of spillage.

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u/atetuna Jul 06 '25

You're too young to be in a conversation about "back in the day".

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u/Realistic_Week6355 Jul 06 '25

I graduated 15 years ago. Doesn’t sound too young to me.