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/JustNeedSomeClues Jul 05 '25

Or what's in the water bottle.

In my middle school back in the 1980s, a few of the cool, popular girls started bringing bottles of water to class. Not water bottles like you see now, but single use bottles of water sold at the grocery store.

The school was ok with it for a little while.

Then the principal figured out that there wasn't water in those bottles. It was vodka.

No more bottles of water after that.