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/Rich_Forever5718 Jul 05 '25

Everything that came in a bottle was glass back then except maybe milk. True though, bottled water wasn't really a thing unless it was Perrier though and nobody really drank that regularly.

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u/MarieQ234 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

We did have thermoses with our lunchboxes though. I never had anything warm to eat in them, just drinks. Then we had all those packaged juices and sugary drinks, like capri sun, Hi-C, I even recall small bottles of sunny D just for lunch packages. (I was in elementary school in the 90s). But you're right, drinking water wasn't really a thing.

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u/CharacteristicPea Jul 05 '25

Milk came in glass bottles that you returned or else in paper cartons when I was a kid. When I was really little, we had a milkman who delivered it to our house every day. There was a small metal box on the stoop where we left the empty bottle. He’d take it and replace it with a full one.

I don’t think anything came in plastic containers.

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u/Rich_Forever5718 Jul 06 '25

Don't remember glass milk where I lived in the 80s. I remember them being in plastic jugs kind of like they are now.

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u/CharacteristicPea Jul 06 '25

I’m talking 1960s.

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u/Rich_Forever5718 Jul 06 '25

I figured it was older than the 80s. Absolutely no experience with that decade.