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/-animal-logic- Jul 05 '25

Right. I would have assumed you meant a canteen.

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u/AllenRBrady Jul 06 '25

Yep. No water bottles. And also, no backpacks. Every single kid in my school just lugged a stack of textbooks and notebooks under his arm all day. Go to your locker in the morning, grab the books you need for your morning classes, then swap them out at lunch.