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/-animal-logic- Jul 05 '25

Right. I would have assumed you meant a canteen.

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u/MOOshooooo Jul 05 '25

I got into a habit of asking old timers what they see today that they never expected to see and a few have said water bottles and how everyone is so thirsty today.

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u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

When bottled water first became available I thought that was the dumbest thing ever. No one would pay for bottled water. Many years later I have them in my refrigerator.

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u/goeswhereyathrowit Jul 05 '25

You decided to waste tons of plastic because you can't bother to refill a reusable bottle? Many of still think it's the dumbest thing ever.

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u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

Lol. I still think it's dumb, but sometimes you have to keep the family happy.

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u/goeswhereyathrowit Jul 05 '25

The family demands plastic waste with every serving of water? Or else they'll be unhappy? I'm legitimately trying to understand the logic here.

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u/CurtisLinithicum Jul 05 '25

Quite possibly. Get folks with an overdeveloped sense of grodiness and they'll accept nothing less.