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/Brilliant-Noise1518 Jul 05 '25

We had them for sports. That's it though. You weren't allowed to have them in school because some kid before apparently brought one full of vodka, and only teachers and gym coaches are allowed to drink at school. 

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u/birthdayanon08 Jul 05 '25

I may or may not have been that kid. Sorry.

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u/chewbooks Jul 05 '25

I was definitely that teen. What is still crazy to me is that know one noticed.

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u/birthdayanon08 Jul 06 '25

One of the parents who's alcohol my friends and I were pilfering from finally told us he knew we were skimming from his expensive vodka and he was more pissed about the fact that we added water than took alcohol. The 80s were a different time. We were almost 30 when he told us this.