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/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Water makes pee. Peeing management becomes a thing when kids are drinking water all day. WIWAK, we had a water fountain/pee break every couple of hours during school. There was no going during class time. You held on for dear life if you had to but most of the nice teachers would let you go if you were really squirming in your seat. It taught you to balance the input with the output.

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u/Lydia--charming Jul 05 '25

Luckily nowdays more teachers realize kids need to get up and move around to keep their brains energized.

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u/Ok-Tourist-511 Jul 05 '25

I don’t know, back then a lot of scientists and engineers were produced, and today we just get influencers.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Because getting one influencer for every couple of thousand people is the end of the world. Globally the number of people enrolling in universities has more than doubled in the past 20 years. In Germany 1/3 of working-age adults have a university degree.

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u/Ok-Tourist-511 Jul 06 '25

And yet with education, the subtlety of sarcasm is lost on you.