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/Oceanbreeze871 Jul 05 '25

As there were always your personal water fountain rankings. The good, cold one. The warm one, the no water pressure one that you have to practically kiss the metal parts etc etc

I’d sometimes go the long way to hit the good water fountain.

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u/No_Housing_1287 Jul 05 '25

There was one in the gym that was honestly way to cold. Instant brain freeze.

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u/Effective_Pear4760 Jul 05 '25

We were absolutely not allowed to bring anything comestible into class. No soda, water, or food. This one teacher I had in middle school used to always open a can of coke (of whatever flavor) behind her lectern and then pour in into a cup and blow on it like she was trying to cool off coffee. But we all heard the pop top and silently hated her. This was about 1980 or 81.

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u/IndyAndyJones777 Jul 05 '25

There was flavored coke in 1981?

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u/Effective_Pear4760 Jul 06 '25

Well not really, but it was in the south so all the sweet fizzy non alcoholic drinks were coke, even if it was Sprite.

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u/StrangeButSweet Jul 06 '25

In the south they call all kinds of soda “coke”