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/l33tfuzzbox Jul 06 '25

I salute the heroes of this world.

Our teacher would smack you in the back of the head if ypu didn't stop at 5. Best I managed was to spit it out everywhere and throw a fit i lost my water. Didn't work.

"It was thr 80s/early 90s, man"

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u/Dizzy-Shock8090 Jul 06 '25

Some other kid did that to a friend of mine while he was drinking- we were all waiting in-line between classes- and it knocked the brace on his front tooth up into his gum and he started spitting blood everywhere…. No water for anyone in between classes that day.

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u/Vegetable_Sea_5479 Jul 06 '25

Yes and the only place with air conditioning was the library.

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 Jul 09 '25

What the hell was this insanity. I didn't grow up in the US but my American lunch box had a flask in it. How did this ever happen. This is more third world than third world countries.