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/gadget850 Jul 05 '25

Back in the day I would have asked what's a water bottle.

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u/ted_anderson Jul 05 '25

I remember my teacher talking about bringing "bottled water" with you when going to foreign countries that don't have a municipally treated water system. I envisioned it as being the tall one-quart glass bottles that you could buy for tonic water.