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?

Type 1 diabetes (formerly called juvenile diabetes) is not caused by diet or lifestyle. Please educate yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Did DCPS or any schools really ban water bottles recently or is this a hoax? I can’t find any news stories about it or anything on the DCPS site. Can anyone provide evidence?

My child's school sent out an excerpt from DCPS regulations about no "open containers" and evidently a bottle of water qualifies as such.

That's a whacked interpretation of "open container."

Anonymous wrote:Did DCPS or any schools really ban water bottles recently or is this a hoax? I can’t find any news stories about it or anything on the DCPS site. Can anyone provide evidence?

My child's school sent out an excerpt from DCPS regulations about no "open containers" and evidently a bottle of water qualifies as such.

Did DCPS or any schools really ban water bottles recently or is this a hoax? I can’t find any news stories about it or anything on the DCPS site. Can anyone provide evidence?

Former DCPS teacher: YAY! no more bottle flipping or heavy metal containers hitting the floor (several times at each class).

I was in high school in the early 80’s and remember having vodka in my coke can. In hindsight the teachers probably noticed and ignored it. I was an A student in a high income area and a crappy home life at the time.

I went to school back in the 70s and 80s when bottled water didn't exist or was just emerging, and nobody was telling people that they needed to drink drink drink water all day to lose weight because the percentage of overweight folks was much lower, and very few kids were overweight or obese.

Truth is that the guidelines about water drinking are all pretty much diet industry promulgated, although some doctors will tell you it helps curb hunger. If people were eating the RDA of fiber in a diet comprised of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds they'd get most of the water their bodies need from diet alone and not actually require much water consumption except during physical activity much more strenuous than sitting at a desk or walking between classes.

I went through 19 years of schooling and never carried a water bottle! What exactly is so insane? They are now like pacifiers.

Do they actually take the time to check to see if kids water bottles are full or empty?

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Anonymous wrote:I took a reusable water bottle to school in the 90s -- what are you talking about?

You were an outlier.

I did in high school in the 90s, too. Maybe that was a Texas thing. It seems pretty ridiculous to ban water bottles and sad that OP is getting so much hate for raising it, but I guess it is even sadder that this rates so low on the people's list of things wrong with our schools these days. Posts like these make me feel even better about making the switch to private where access to water isn't a hot button issue.

It's easy to expel a kid in private that brings alcohol on campus and gets drunk and their friends drink to where they have to get their stomachs pumped. Not a great example. If the kids were getting drunk at school with the vodka they sneak in in water bottles, you all would be complaining about that. There is no winning with this crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:I took a reusable water bottle to school in the 90s -- what are you talking about?

You were an outlier.

I did in high school in the 90s, too. Maybe that was a Texas thing. It seems pretty ridiculous to ban water bottles and sad that OP is getting so much hate for raising it, but I guess it is even sadder that this rates so low on the people's list of things wrong with our schools these days. Posts like these make me feel even better about making the switch to private where access to water isn't a hot button issue.

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

Is the water safe though?

You can't be serious.

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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.

The water bottle is for lunch, genius.

Surely the lunch break is long enough to allow them to fill the water bottle and drink out of it.

No my Darling Son needs someone to micromanage him getting water even though he's 16 and I bought him a car. He will grow up to be a DH for DC Urban moms who also can't help with the kids; dinner; the house or anything so his wife can be tapped out and blame everyone but him.

Sorry sarcasm. I had to. I'm over a mom friend moaning to me about how she's overwhelmed when her husband does nothing and she seems to think its everyone else's fault but his.

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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.

The water bottle is for lunch, genius.

Surely the lunch break is long enough to allow them to fill the water bottle and drink out of it.

My high schooler takes her water bottle everyday with no issues. I'm pretty sure there are bigger issues to be concerned about.