No water bottles allowed? This is insane!

[Anonymous]

Security guards not letting kids in with *water bottles* because of a DCPS "open container" rule?
This is insane! Kids need to drink water, they shouldn't have to ask to leave class, which disrupts learning. Did you not read that juvenile diabetes is off the charts now, because our kids are not drinking enough? My high schooler says it is because some kids are bringing alcohol to school. There has to be a better way to stop that than to deny ALL kids a water bottle in school! What can we do about this?

[Anonymous]

Transparent bottles and random checks if anything seems funny.

[Anonymous]

We never carried water bottles back in the day. They will survive.

[Anonymous]

That was true at my school 20 years ago. Kids were bringing in vodka

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Security guards not letting kids in with *water bottles* because of a DCPS "open container" rule?
This is insane! Kids need to drink water, they shouldn't have to ask to leave class, which disrupts learning. Did you not read that juvenile diabetes is off the charts now, because our kids are not drinking enough? My high schooler says it is because some kids are bringing alcohol to school. There has to be a better way to stop that than to deny ALL kids a water bottle in school! What can we do about this?

Water is the least of DCPS issues. Use a water fountain between classes. Care about things like school safety or the quality of teachers. Or the insane number of kids behind in reading and math. Not water bottles.

[Anonymous]

Which schools are these? Our elementary’s lost and found is always over flowing with water bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never carried water bottles back in the day. They will survive.

This.

Kids are getting type 2 diabetes because they are obese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Security guards not letting kids in with *water bottles* because of a DCPS "open container" rule?
This is insane! Kids need to drink water, they shouldn't have to ask to leave class, which disrupts learning. Did you not read that juvenile diabetes is off the charts now, because our kids are not drinking enough? My high schooler says it is because some kids are bringing alcohol to school. There has to be a better way to stop that than to deny ALL kids a water bottle in school! What can we do about this?

They don't allow kids to bring in open empty containers and fill them at school? That seems like the obvious solution.

[Anonymous]

No one is denying your child water. They have access to water fountains in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never carried water bottles back in the day. They will survive.

Yes, the famously much more obese decades of the 70s and 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Security guards not letting kids in with *water bottles* because of a DCPS "open container" rule?
This is insane! Kids need to drink water, they shouldn't have to ask to leave class, which disrupts learning. Did you not read that juvenile diabetes is off the charts now, because our kids are not drinking enough? My high schooler says it is because some kids are bringing alcohol to school. There has to be a better way to stop that than to deny ALL kids a water bottle in school! What can we do about this?

You lose all credibility with such a stupid statement.

[Anonymous]

Didn't they do this years ago?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/585724.page

[Anonymous]

OP please talk with your pediatrian and get help.

Kids are fine.

You are the problem

[Anonymous]

Is it silly to enforce this rule against all kids because of the moronic behavior of some? Sure. It is a big deal? Not at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never carried water bottles back in the day. They will survive.

Agreed. 👍