Anonymous
Post 01/15/2024 08:42     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
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?


This has been a rule at McKinley Tech all year. Students can bring a water bottle, but it has to be either sealed or empty (to be filled up inside the school).
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2024 08:38     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
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?


Which school is this? Jackson Reed?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2024 07:18     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
I took a reusable water bottle to school in the 90s -- what are you talking about?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2024 05:35     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Oh you mean the water fountains with lead pipes? Most schools have them.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2024 00:10     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:Is this a dcps policy for all high schools or just some of them?


I am a DCPS HS teacher and most kids have reusable water bottles at my school. I assume they bring them in empty and fill them once in the building, kind of like TSA at the airport.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 21:34     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Is this a dcps policy for all high schools or just some of them?
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 21:17     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
PK teacher here. It’s always the kids that aren’t potty trained have the most water bottles, at least 2 with 1 Pull up in the back pack!
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 21:13     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ok op I agree this is a dumb policy…but we didn’t have water bottles when I was in school back in the early 2000s stone ages…i don’t even know if I had any fluids during the day?!

I feel like the “always carry a huge jug of water everywhere” attitude started when I was in college.


And it was started by the companies that sell water bottles at an insane premium.


And magnified during reopening following COVID and not being able to use water fountains.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:56     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:Ok op I agree this is a dumb policy…but we didn’t have water bottles when I was in school back in the early 2000s stone ages…i don’t even know if I had any fluids during the day?!

I feel like the “always carry a huge jug of water everywhere” attitude started when I was in college.


And it was started by the companies that sell water bottles at an insane premium.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:54     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
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?


This is the dumbest post.

Bad: kids having vodka in water bottles at school.

Not bad: kid using water fountain instead of water bottle.

Also not bad: Kid having water before school, with lunch, and after school.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:51     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
This sounds like some “Karen” mom with nothing better to do.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:51     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:Which schools are these? Our elementary’s lost and found is always over flowing with water bottles.


Same
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:33     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Ok op I agree this is a dumb policy…but we didn’t have water bottles when I was in school back in the early 2000s stone ages…i don’t even know if I had any fluids during the day?!

I feel like the “always carry a huge jug of water everywhere” attitude started when I was in college.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 17:34     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:That was true at my school 20 years ago. Kids were bringing in vodka


Same here.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 17:01     Subject: No water bottles allowed? This is insane!
Anonymous wrote:OP please talk with your pediatrian and get help.

Kids are fine.

You are the problem


…and your own medical professional to help you with some anti-anxiety meds.