DCPS will no longer let students bring open beverages into building

[Anonymous]

Including water bottles. Only sealed drinks are now allowed in.
I understand that kids may try to bring alcohol into the school, but this rule seems like it will generate a lot of plastic waste. Carrying in an empty water bottle is impractical, there aren't enough fountains for kids to fill up their bottles before/between classes, especially in a larger school like Wilson or Deal. And using the tap water from the bathroom is iffy, some taps still are labeled "Not for drinking"
Is there no other solution?

[Anonymous]

This isn't in anticipation of a possible problem, it's in response to a real one (kids bringing in alcohol).

Support the school and don't keep alcohol in an unlocked cabinet in your home.

[Anonymous]

Does this apply to elementary school as well? I sure hope not. Especially with lead being found in some schools, I do not want my child drinking out of the water fountain. I will be vocal about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in anticipation of a possible problem, it's in response to a real one (kids bringing in alcohol).

Support the school and don't keep alcohol in an unlocked cabinet in your home.

How can this possibly be enforced well? Rules are meaningless if they cannot be enforced. I can think of all sorts of ways to sneak in alcohol. I think responses to problems should be narrowly tailored to be effective. Such a broad swath seems pointless. What grades does this rule effect? I am assuming 6th on up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this apply to elementary school as well? I sure hope not. Especially with lead being found in some schools, I do not want my child drinking out of the water fountain. I will be vocal about this.

For real! And at the libraries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/04/27/d-c-is-handing-out-bottled-water-to-students-at-one-school-after-brownish-water-discovered/

[Anonymous]

LOL good luck DCPS. I don't think this is a new problem in the history of the world. There are other ways to address this. Like *dealing with the problem children* who are going to sneak it in anyway if that's what they really want to do. I can think of several ways pretty easily. In fact, as an adult (or college student), I've worked around that rule...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How can this possibly be enforced well? Rules are meaningless if they cannot be enforced. I can think of all sorts of ways to sneak in alcohol. I think responses to problems should be narrowly tailored to be effective. Such a broad swath seems pointless. What grades does this rule effect? I am assuming 6th on up?

I agree. The kids that want to sneak in alcohol will still be able. They will probably get a bigger kick out of doing it now & it will become more of a game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in anticipation of a possible problem, it's in response to a real one (kids bringing in alcohol).

Support the school and don't keep alcohol in an unlocked cabinet in your home.

Why don't the schools expel the repeat offenders, instead of trying to enforce this new non-sensical policy on everyone else?

[Anonymous]

NO WAY am I letting my kid use 180 disposable water bottles in one school year.

This is an environmental disaster:

2000 kids at Wilson, each bringing one sealed, disposable water bottle per day =

180 days in the school year = 360,000 disposable water bottles per year

= an astonishing 1,440,000 disposable water bottles over the course of 4 years of high school. That's just for ONE high school.

Also: why the presumption of guilt? Why is DCPS always in search of bureaucratic answers to problems that they haven't proven actually exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this apply to elementary school as well? I sure hope not. Especially with lead being found in some schools, I do not want my child drinking out of the water fountain. I will be vocal about this.

For real! And at the libraries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/04/27/d-c-is-handing-out-bottled-water-to-students-at-one-school-after-brownish-water-discovered/

Ew! That's disgusting - WTH?? Since when can't children bring a water bottle school and what specifically happened at what juvenile detention center to introduce this bout of insanity??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this apply to elementary school as well? I sure hope not. Especially with lead being found in some schools, I do not want my child drinking out of the water fountain. I will be vocal about this.

For real! And at the libraries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/04/27/d-c-is-handing-out-bottled-water-to-students-at-one-school-after-brownish-water-discovered/

That link talks about one school and it's because the water supply is messed up. Not a ban on bringing water in a bottle from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Including water bottles. Only sealed drinks are now allowed in.
I understand that kids may try to bring alcohol into the school, but this rule seems like it will generate a lot of plastic waste. Carrying in an empty water bottle is impractical, there aren't enough fountains for kids to fill up their bottles before/between classes, especially in a larger school like Wilson or Deal. And using the tap water from the bathroom is iffy, some taps still are labeled "Not for drinking"
Is there no other solution?

Source, please? I have a hard time believing this.

[Anonymous]

No way that I'm going to stop sending a full, icy water bottle with my elementary child each and every day. For two years straight his classroom was in a demountable without a water fountain or water service and if we ever forgot a water bottle he was so thirsty that it impacted his learning, mood, etc. I can't speak for DCPS generally, but I'm quite certain this is NOT a hill our principal would care to die on. Let's the heavies from downtown come and enforce this...our administration and teacher likely will not. It's ridiculous. And good point, PP about the wastefulness of using disposable bottles. Our school is a green school for goodness sake!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this apply to elementary school as well? I sure hope not. Especially with lead being found in some schools, I do not want my child drinking out of the water fountain. I will be vocal about this.

For real! And at the libraries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/04/27/d-c-is-handing-out-bottled-water-to-students-at-one-school-after-brownish-water-discovered/

That link talks about one school and it's because the water supply is messed up. Not a ban on bringing water in a bottle from home.

Tis is n longer allowed, unless it s a sealed bottle. none of this anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Including water bottles. Only sealed drinks are now allowed in.
I understand that kids may try to bring alcohol into the school, but this rule seems like it will generate a lot of plastic waste. Carrying in an empty water bottle is impractical, there aren't enough fountains for kids to fill up their bottles before/between classes, especially in a larger school like Wilson or Deal. And using the tap water from the bathroom is iffy, some taps still are labeled "Not for drinking"
Is there no other solution?

Source, please? I have a hard time believing this.

Wilson kids were told this yesterday, by Admin