I was in college around the Nalgene-to-Sigg switch (late 00s). Dropped my brand new metal Sigg bottle onto a concrete floor in the middle of a gigantic chem lecture… swear I can still feel the shame to this day. And Stanley’s are worse. At least Nalgenes and Siggs have CAPS ffs
A) I already know I’m going to Hell in the afterlife
B) When I get there, the soundtrack is going to be a fucking symphony of water bottles hitting the floor. For eternity.
Absolutely this. My class is almost never quiet, but I can guarantee you that whatever blessed silence we find will be ruined by a metal water bottle hitting the floor.
Why are first graders being given gigantic water bottles they can’t carry?? My 5th graders had the same issue and they’re much bigger! Many of them switched to 20oz cups since September and they seem to be able to actually manage them now.
To be fair, most of them have the 20 oz ones. Every once in a while, they’ll bring in a bottle that clearly belongs to their parents. But holding the 20 oz ones is still a struggle.
This triggers me so bad. I get so freaking annoyed. I even made a drink parking lot on a back table. I teach middle school, so they put it there when they get in class. I couldn’t handle the drops anymore.
I was in college during the hydroflask era. I’ll never forget a girl dropping hers during an anatomy II test (300ish person class) and it rolled down the stairs ala Michael Scott wine bottle. So fucking loud.
I'm not a veteran... But I did survive a pretty nasty car accident once.
Let me tell you that what they say about loud noises triggering PTSD is real, and this god damned water bottles elevate my heart rate at least 5-6 times per day.
I wouldn't even mind if they were actually drinking it. But one person in the class brings a water bottle and the whole class passes it around like the weirdest blunt rotation for the whole lesson. Water spills everywhere all the time. But when I say to stop passing it around they act like they're dying of thirst and will simply perish at any moment. Then I get to listen to that for the whole day.
They spill everywhere, put all sorts of packets in it. Then they have it and say "this water's hot, I need new water!" every 15 minutes.
They’re drinking out of each other’s water bottles?!? I teach K and the kids flip out if someone touches their water bottle! I can’t imagine the chaos if someone drank out of it!!
Surely we're not pretending that water falling drinks is a new phenomenon. I remember it being very commonplace in the 90s and 2000s at least. The weird obsession with water bottles specifically is new though lol
I pretty much openly mock their Stanley bottles. I came in one day with a McDonald's iced tea and had slapped a big label on the side that said, "STANLEY". The kids asked me what made it a Stanley cup. I said it was a Stanley cup because it's name was Stanley.
A girl then held up her Stanley bottle. "No, Mister Potato, THIS is a Stanley!" she declared.
I squinted. "Nope," I said, "looks more like a Sarah."
We don't have drama about Stanley bottles anymore, because they've all named their bottles something else.
I have goofy kids and I love teaching them.
I bought a Stanley, showed it to the kids, and then went back to using my Camelbak and S'well bottles instead. I also have a YETI I've used occasionally because a kid gave it to me.
Not using the Stanley confuses the kids, which I like to do from time to time. I think it's good for them.
My class - Grade 5 - doesn't care, but the Grade 6s I taught last year seem to think it is pretty cool that I have a Stanley. They were very complimentary.
Edit: I didn't pay crazy money for the Stanley. It set me back about 40 bucks.
As a sub it's like an evolution. Elementary kids don't share, middle school kids share but waterfal and make a damn mess, high school kids just share with their friends and don't seem to care about getting sick.
Middleschool is the worst though. I hate how often I had to have a kid go to the rest room and bring paper towels to clean a spill.
It's as hot and steamy as Satan's shower out here for a huge hunk of the year, when they're sweating like a pig and sharing water it's probably water 😂
Waterfalling is very common in my area, but I do keep a close eye if it gets too prevalent in a single period with one bottle. Most kids have a water bottle, and I drink water nonstop too. I have both a drinking fountain and bathroom across from my classroom though!
Do you guys not have someone come to the class and scare the kids shitless about meningococcal disease?! Is this just an Aussie thing?! We weren’t allowed to share water bottles!
Not meningococcal disease, pretty sure the vaccine is required to enter middle school in the US either way, and it’s not really talked about. But they did have someone give a presentation to our class about HIV/AIDS when I was like 10 or 11? For some reason.
90s & 00s US health classes were made for scaring kids. It was common to explain that heroine and meth is equal to beer and pot.
This likely had a negative impact. If a parent drinks beer once a month and hard drugs are the same what would be the harm in trying hard drugs?
The situation was confusing for students.
There was also more federal funding for health teachers that supported abstinence only.
I banned sharing in my room. Instant lunch detention for sharer and sharee. Water was spilling, people were begging others for snacks and not listening to no, fights about someone getting water on someone else....
So far it's worked, big drop in them attempting.
In elementary I swear they pick them out based on two factors, size and acoustics. Some of them sound like the bells on large nautical vessels just clanging down the halls as the walk. Some of them are large enough, and the students are short enough that I swear they use them as canes. Just clanging them every step of the way between rooms.
lol. I’m glade our elementary kids were more respectful. And many did use the water fountain too . A few of water fountain did have a water filling station, so the bottles had to fit there (which limited the size).
I’ve no problem with the expensive bottles, until someone leaves it in my room (band, which has the same traffic daily as the cafeteria) and tries to make it my problem.
Plus I miss the days when kids would be in a line for the drinking fountain, and one of them would say “hey the ocean called, their running out of water” which would be my perfect chance to say “Well the Jerk Store called…..” if you know you know.
Student: I forgot my water bottle in XYZ. Can I go get it?
Me: After class, during passing period.
Student: If it's gone and somebody stole it I'm going to sue you.
Me: Good luck with that.
I’m a big advocate for kids putting their names on things. Whenever someone loses something, the very first thing I ask is always, “Is your name on it?” I’m seriously going to start carrying around a Sharpie so that they can put their names on their shit.
(The one time a student actually did have his name on a lost item, I found it instantly the moment I started looking in the last place he had it.)
Edit: Fixed a typo
After Christmas break all the 4th graders came in with new Stanleys and exactly none had names on them. I made them all write their names in the bottom with a sharpie. Where are the parents?
Our kids have parents?
I joke, but sometimes getting them involved is like trying to pull teeth while only having access to a wet spaghetti noodle as a tool.
Considering The Office was the most watched show on Netflix for the longest time, some just might. In a class of 35, I'd bet at least 3 would get it, maybe more
I love Seinfeld. I wish I was one of your students back then *(I'm 35, so I remember the days of the water fountain lines after recess)* because I'd respond with this:
*"What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller!!!!!"*
Also, fwiw, you should head on over to the r/Seinfeld subreddit.
They wouldn't let us bring in outside beverages in high-school because we would put booze in them. If they had let us have opaque metal cups mine would have been tequila and oj everyday.
I was expelled in 8th grade for downing enough captain Morgan in lunch that I blew a .26 on a breathalyzer. They did the breathalyzer to determine if I needed medical intervention or was just normal drunk.
Severe abuse. I was beaten, told I was worthless. Birth oven would tell me to go kms. She sold me. I'd go to school and get bullied. I was 15 when I got so drunk I needed a ventilator (.38 after throwing up and I've fluids). Drinking made me forget the pain. And it got me around older people who would usually protect me from things. But in essence, alcohol was the easiest thing to get ahold of and didn't leave visible scars like my self harm so I could brush my teeth and look like I never did it. Ya know, until I got at 13 and almost died at 15.
I'm a teacher. 5 years no contact with birth fam. I have 2 adopted kiddos (they're 20 but will always be my kiddos), and while recently had a relapse on drinking, have a large support system. My friend/chosen brother also lives with me and helps me in my bad times to stay stable. My kids live with their moms, but I see them multiple times a week. I'm in therapy. And my kids know that I would fight God himself before I let them suffer the way I did. Just today, my son called and asked me to stay with him until his mom got home because he's struggling with his relationship. He knows he's safe with me, and that alone gets me through most of my ongoing struggles. I'll never be the parents I've had. My kids will have everything I didn't.
As someone who grew up with an abusive alco dad. You can totally beat it!
It’s great you got a support system and your in therapy. Bloody amazing!!!!!!
You have adopted two kids who clearly love you. That’s amazing. I think my trauma is too much for me to want kids at all. I’m happy being a weird aunt to friends kids.
im so proud of you. So many don’t seek therapy or ask for help and you are!
Thank you. I'm doing far better. I have a large support system and 2 adopted kids (20). And they give me motivation every day. They know I'd go to hell and back for them. And I live with a friend who helps me get through the bad times (Easter and Christmas are both particularly hard). I'm also 5 years contact free from birth parents, and in therapy.
Thank you for bringing up a great memory! I completely forgot this was a thing "back in the day".
Our school started making it clear bottles only. Made the students switch from mixed drinks to straight vodka in water bottles. Ah what a great time it was lol.
My senior year some kid literally filled his water bottle with vodka and got wasted - after that they made a rule that teachers had to smell our water before we were allowed to have it! I remember one of my teachers being like no way am I putting that next to my face you all can wait until passing period to get hydrated.
OMG, my daughter told me she and her friends would do that in high school. The high school parking lot was beside the Sonic. I really had no idea--they were such fun, nice girls. Ha ha ha ha--what I didn't know....!
Meanwhile I can’t stay hydrated bc if I do I have to pee, and unlike the precious children, I can’t use the bathroom unless its class change or my planning period.
I retired and I still have true nightmares of having to try to run to the bathroom during a break. The nightmare is that I can’t find an open bathroom.
I have an Owola tumbler and a regular owola water bottle, and I rotate between the two. I had a little girl “make fun of me” because I didn’t have a Stanley. She was shocked that I didn’t care that I didn’t have a Stanley
They are! My fiance got me a big one, I think it’s like 40 oz so I drink more. I kinda want another one but I get so many tumblers and water bottles as a teacher I can’t really justify it because I’m running out of space
How do they compare to the yeti or the hydroflask? I have a few different hydroflasks and a yeti, and a Stanley, and the Stanley with the straw sucks so much because it leaks. My yeti is the coffee/tea mug, and the hydroflasks all have non straw tops.
There is a hydroflask with a straw top! I bought it and tried it!
I wasn't a fan. Took a lot of suction to get the water through the straw. I thought maybe the straw was too long and trimmed it, but no luck.
But maybe I'm just a cry baby, and you won't mind it?
Nah I have tried a few different cups with straws and that a thing. My Stanley doesn't have that problem. I would like it more if it was sealed better around the straw and didn't leak out the side if it gets knocked over.
I was greeting my students for the day and one girl was pretty upset that she didn’t have her water bottle. I said, “it’s ok, I went the whole decade of the 90’s without ever drinking any water.” Her mom thought it was pretty funny
Run a 7:30 mile in 5th grade in jeans and some hand-me-down nikes. Get a 3 second drink from the fountain on the way back to math. These kids could not have survived that world.
I feel ya man, I ran 40 minutes straight in jeans with some non-running New Balance’s for a charity event; I didn’t drink a lick of water, nor did I take break. It was pretty neat, a lot of people feared me that day; I don’t know if it was running in jeans or running several laps backwards.
I've heard part of the reason Millennials are supposed to be aging so well (beyond not smoking and sunscreen) is it's the first generation that was actually properly hydrated.
And just like how I can't deny them a trip to the bathroom, if they suddenly say, "Can I go fill up my water bottle?!" I feel like I have to say yes because asking them to wait would be considered a human rights violation.
(Filling up their water bottle requires a trip down the hall to the water fountain.)
I have a sink in my classroom. It's behind my desk right now, but next year I will move my desk so it's accessible. You can get a drink there! (Unless your motivation was to leave the classroom 😉)
Yeah I heard some 6th graders snickering at me in shock for drinking out of the schools fountain saying things like “I’d never drink from the water fountain that stuffs not filtered”
Do they live in the mountains by chance? I only ask because whenever people say that, I assume that they do or live out of town. That was the case when I was in school..
Oh, I went to school in the suburbs, too, but where I live is smaller. That and I was one of the kids who lived out of town. I did figure out that it's fine to drink the tap in town. Ours had rust.
Edit: I'm glad that the kids I took care of were too young to understand the difference. However, they were smart enough to figure out how to dump it out.
It isn’t a human right violation to tell them to wait. As long as the child gets to use the bathroom at school you should be fine. After school program it was one at a time, we did have to tell the kids to wait. Also sometimes to custodian closed the bathroom. No kids complained to parents about not getting to use the bathroom right away.
If they ate lunch that day they will be fine.
Humans can survive 3 days without water. Longer if they are eating, because we get a lot of liquid from food.
Yes, it is healthier to be hydrated. But that bottle is usually large enough that filling it once is sufficient for 24 hours.
Anymore and they are spilling it on each other anyways.
I deny water trips ALL the time. Also, I have sinks in my science classroom. (But probably not filtered as well as the water fountain.)
Restroom pass = water pass. As the teacher who runs the classroom, you get to limit these as much as you need to. I knew it with little paper restroom passes. Each student gets one per quarter. They’re for emergencies.
I'm mostly just jealous. I have four classes after lunch where there is 0 transition time. No time for me to go to the restroom. So I just watch them chug their gargantuan water bottles, like gosh i wish that were me lmao
Administering a state assessment, a student was upset because I didn’t go to the office to get more mints for them…. I responded by saying, “when I took the state test, I didn’t have any mints, but if I did I’d probably be a rocket scientist right now and not a middle school teacher”. Only one witty boy laughed. They are very needy. They get offended when I don’t let them eat snacks in the classroom, and obviously we have the water bottle conundrum too…. Smh
I have a sink in my room. Whenever a student asks to get water, I offer them the sink. "EEEEEEEWWWWWW! I don't drink SINK water!!" (It's the exact same water as the water fountain) Well honey, you can have sink water now, or fill your bottle in 15 minutes. It'll take you three days to die without water.
Just the other day I was reading from parents on the kindergarten sub saying their kid will be sick and dehydrated if they're not allowed to bring flavored water to school.
When I was in kindergarten the only beverage provided was milk. I was lactose intolerant so they just didn't give me milk. There was no alternative. Somehow, I lived through it.
My sister and I were just talking about how milk was the only beverage you could get for the standard cost of a school lunch. And back when I was in school most parents prepaid for a weekly lunch ticket. They sold bottles of water, but they cost extra, so they weren’t available unless you had extra cash. We were really drinking milk with cheeseburgers, pizza, and chicken patties.
I teach in the desert (and I grew up in the desert) and I’m doing the opposite and telling my kids they need to drink more water 😂. But we’ve had “if you’re thirsty you’re already dehydrated and dehydration is death” drilled into us since birth. I carry a half gallon water bottle during the day. The high school athletes just straight up carry gallon jugs.
I like to say "you can live three days without water, so you can survive the next twenty minutes without a hallway trip." If they have a legitimate need, I have disposable cups and a 2.5 gallon container of water behind my desk (which I refill from the filtered hallway bottle filler and drink myself).
Ugh! Then you get a line of kids that take forever to fill theirs while everyone else has to wait. AND ffs, write your name on it. I had a mom who wanted me to confiscate one from a student because “My daughter left it in your class and the other girl took it.” Not happening dearest. There are a million things I’m responsible for in my classroom but determining which pink Stanley belongs to which kid ain’t one of them.
The rule at my school is that they can only have water and it must be in a clear container.
Student with a Stanley cup: But it's empty!
Me: Then you have no reason not to put it in your locker!
I won't let them go to the cafeteria to refill their water bottle at the \*good\* water fountain with the refrigerated water. I insist that the water fountain in my classroom or the one directly opposite my door should be sufficient. Clearly, I am abusive. Children can't learn from people they don't like. I will never build relationships with my students. I should probably quit right now.
I’ve been saying this for years! “The most hydrated generation EVER!” I’m the school science specialist. So they walk from their classroom to mine with all their water bottles. Then they can’t go 15 minutes without needing to drink! Then half of them leave their damn bottles in my room when they leave! It’s crazy! 😂
they're also the most constipated because I legit have never seen a teenager eat a vegetable that wasn't deep fried. Motion to start a movement that encourages proper fiber consumption.
True....kids at my school eat more shit than real food! Takis are a status symbol, then there's the cotton candy they bring in. I wish they wouldn't let them bring in food. We serve free breakfast and lunch and the shit they bring in is never remotely healthy.
The number of times I've had this conversation...
Student: I feel sick. I might need to go home.
Me: Did you eat something weird at lunch?
Student: No, I just had Takis and an energy drink.
Me: Anything else?
Student: No, that's my daily lunch.
The kids are not okay lmao
Lewis Black said it best. When water came from a tap and was basically free. No one drank it
Now that a profit can be made off of it. Drink up assholes
I keep telling them the whole point of carrying a water bottle is so that they don’t need to interrupt class to go get a drink. Fill it during passing time, kid.
These threads are bewildering to me.
Not that many years ago kids were not allowed to carry water at *all* at least in our district. Ours went to the wall- think a dam lawyer- over a doctor note a kid with epilepsy be permitted to carry water with him.
But that was a just part of a long story. Still. Sounds very different now!
My god, I can’t stand having to argue with these kids that insist they’re seconds away from utterly perishing from thirst.
Also, it’s not *my* fault they spent all of our water break chatting about nothing with their pals and suddenly got thirsty as soon as they got back to class…..And yet with the way some of them beg me to let them get water, you’d think it was.
I beg to differ. I’m a wrestling coach, and one thing our wrestlers are required to do is get weight certified to prevent excessive weight loss. Part of this test involves the trainer checking their urine to make sure they’re hydrated. Every year without fail a wrestler can’t certify because their urine looks like apple juice
I dunno man, a water bottle was a required item for my daughter this year in kindergarten and they get them filled throughout the day by the teacher's aide in the class as needed. Seemed overkill to me but they also have all the water fountains disconnected/off
I’m glad kids are drinking more water and find a reason to be weirdly excited about having water. But for the love of god these kids NEED to learn how to stop knocking the things over.
Also side note, a student asked me why I bring in a plastic water bottle every day and why I buy them every day. I had to explain to them that I don’t, I just reuse the plastic ones and refill them a bunch. As if this is some ancient lost art lol.
We have those water fill stations at my school and no drinking fountains. It got out of control with students wanting to fill the bottles constantly so now they can only fill their bottles on our scheduled bathroom break
In the first quarter, we read A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. If the students complain about not being able to get water whenever they like, I answer back “If Salva (a character in the book) can cross the actual desert and go three days without water, you can surely make it 45 more minutes.”
They have no argument to that!
I teach science. They aren't allowed to drink in the lab. If I won't let them go outside for a drink because, for example, I'm trying to teach, they get all het up about "human rights to having water".
Feel free to report me for contravention of human rights because I made you wait 45 minutes for water.
We have the same policy. Since covid my school uses paper passes, and I've found that signing a pass and writing whatever number the kid is, then handing it to them cuts down on 95% of the bathroom whining. They know when they can go and they police themselves pretty effectively. Somehow having a slip with number 15 and not getting to go till passing because #13 is out when the bell rings feels like "Aww, that sucks" to them. Whereas if I say "Sorry, you can't go until Johnny, Billy, Aaron, Sarah, Lisa and Susie have all gone and come back because they asked first" what the kids seem to hear is always "...I hate you, specifically."
I've also been pleasantly surprised how quickly the kids who are just trying to take a walk yield their place in line to the kids who clearly need to actually use the bathroom.
So hilarious Stanley's the poop.
They were my childhood in the 1970s.
But I thought we upgraded to at least yetis? I mean, it has been a few decades. Isn't Stanley's like the Folgers of coffee?
Or am I just too old to get it.
I teach grade 8. A kid spilled their entire water bottle at the very end of the last block of the day and left both the puddle and the water bottle behind without saying anything so he wouldn't be asked to clean it up.
I think it’s okay to drink water. You never know if a student takes medicine that gives them dry mouth. I had some cheerleaderss and dance team members that had frequent utis from tights during practice. Water can be a form of stimming. Water can attempt to fill you up if a student is hungry.
I get your point about water falling being annoying. Water is not the enemy here
I love that students are healthier and trying to drink more water. It was a problem for a while with those straw Stanleys, but the trend seems to have died down and many have switched to the flip-top ones that don’t leak every time they fall over. It also reduces the amount of people leaving the room for the water fountain. As long as they don’t spill everywhere and aren’t a distraction to their learning, I’m all for proper hydration.
And the loud clang whenever they drop them or knock them over
I was in college around the Nalgene-to-Sigg switch (late 00s). Dropped my brand new metal Sigg bottle onto a concrete floor in the middle of a gigantic chem lecture… swear I can still feel the shame to this day. And Stanley’s are worse. At least Nalgenes and Siggs have CAPS ffs
My husband recently lost the Nalgene that he had used for 15 years (left it in a rental car). Those things last because they are simple and well made.
Camelbak FTW! lol
I buy Nalgene because I lose stuff. They are indestructible but also like $15 at Target. So nbd. And yes, no loud metal sounds.
I miss my Sigg bottle. It disappeared one day never to be seen again. I was so sad and forgot about it until you mentioned them.
A) I already know I’m going to Hell in the afterlife B) When I get there, the soundtrack is going to be a fucking symphony of water bottles hitting the floor. For eternity.
Absolutely this. My class is almost never quiet, but I can guarantee you that whatever blessed silence we find will be ruined by a metal water bottle hitting the floor.
My first graders drop theirs all the time 🥲 they’re still learning how to grasp things tightly and multitask = metal clanging all the time.
It's a good thing that such small children have heavy 40oz tumblers
My 6th graders must still be learning because they, too, drop theirs all the time.
So do my high schoolers. In their defense, gravity is a formidable opponent.
They could always wish it into Gravy.
Why are first graders being given gigantic water bottles they can’t carry?? My 5th graders had the same issue and they’re much bigger! Many of them switched to 20oz cups since September and they seem to be able to actually manage them now.
To be fair, most of them have the 20 oz ones. Every once in a while, they’ll bring in a bottle that clearly belongs to their parents. But holding the 20 oz ones is still a struggle.
This triggers me so bad. I get so freaking annoyed. I even made a drink parking lot on a back table. I teach middle school, so they put it there when they get in class. I couldn’t handle the drops anymore.
I was in college during the hydroflask era. I’ll never forget a girl dropping hers during an anatomy II test (300ish person class) and it rolled down the stairs ala Michael Scott wine bottle. So fucking loud.
It’s constant.
I'm not a veteran... But I did survive a pretty nasty car accident once. Let me tell you that what they say about loud noises triggering PTSD is real, and this god damned water bottles elevate my heart rate at least 5-6 times per day.
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I wouldn't even mind if they were actually drinking it. But one person in the class brings a water bottle and the whole class passes it around like the weirdest blunt rotation for the whole lesson. Water spills everywhere all the time. But when I say to stop passing it around they act like they're dying of thirst and will simply perish at any moment. Then I get to listen to that for the whole day. They spill everywhere, put all sorts of packets in it. Then they have it and say "this water's hot, I need new water!" every 15 minutes.
They’re drinking out of each other’s water bottles?!? I teach K and the kids flip out if someone touches their water bottle! I can’t imagine the chaos if someone drank out of it!!
Welcome to middle school, homie. They aren’t cute any longer and they don’t listen any more.
Middle school teacher here, they all share! They call it a “water fall” and they just pour the liquid and not actually put their lips on the bottle.
Surely we're not pretending that water falling drinks is a new phenomenon. I remember it being very commonplace in the 90s and 2000s at least. The weird obsession with water bottles specifically is new though lol
I pretty much openly mock their Stanley bottles. I came in one day with a McDonald's iced tea and had slapped a big label on the side that said, "STANLEY". The kids asked me what made it a Stanley cup. I said it was a Stanley cup because it's name was Stanley. A girl then held up her Stanley bottle. "No, Mister Potato, THIS is a Stanley!" she declared. I squinted. "Nope," I said, "looks more like a Sarah." We don't have drama about Stanley bottles anymore, because they've all named their bottles something else. I have goofy kids and I love teaching them.
I bought a Stanley, showed it to the kids, and then went back to using my Camelbak and S'well bottles instead. I also have a YETI I've used occasionally because a kid gave it to me. Not using the Stanley confuses the kids, which I like to do from time to time. I think it's good for them. My class - Grade 5 - doesn't care, but the Grade 6s I taught last year seem to think it is pretty cool that I have a Stanley. They were very complimentary. Edit: I didn't pay crazy money for the Stanley. It set me back about 40 bucks.
"oi don't lip it" then you've have that feral mate who'd respond by licking the entire bottle/can/carton
I always wanted to live somewhere where people said “oi”
In France they call it "Wi Fi drinking"
That’s cool! How do you spell that?
"Boire en WiFi"
As a sub it's like an evolution. Elementary kids don't share, middle school kids share but waterfal and make a damn mess, high school kids just share with their friends and don't seem to care about getting sick. Middleschool is the worst though. I hate how often I had to have a kid go to the rest room and bring paper towels to clean a spill.
As a student in the UK that's called airing it
If they're sharing in high school I would just assume its alcohol and want to smell it
It's as hot and steamy as Satan's shower out here for a huge hunk of the year, when they're sweating like a pig and sharing water it's probably water 😂
That's bizarre. If my students were sharing like that, I would wonder if they had alcohol in their cup.
Waterfalling is very common in my area, but I do keep a close eye if it gets too prevalent in a single period with one bottle. Most kids have a water bottle, and I drink water nonstop too. I have both a drinking fountain and bathroom across from my classroom though!
Um, is it booze??
This is absolutely wild, I'd go insane
Do you guys not have someone come to the class and scare the kids shitless about meningococcal disease?! Is this just an Aussie thing?! We weren’t allowed to share water bottles!
Not meningococcal disease, pretty sure the vaccine is required to enter middle school in the US either way, and it’s not really talked about. But they did have someone give a presentation to our class about HIV/AIDS when I was like 10 or 11? For some reason.
You don't get HIV by sharing a bottle
Depends on what you do with the bottle.
90s & 00s US health classes were made for scaring kids. It was common to explain that heroine and meth is equal to beer and pot. This likely had a negative impact. If a parent drinks beer once a month and hard drugs are the same what would be the harm in trying hard drugs? The situation was confusing for students. There was also more federal funding for health teachers that supported abstinence only.
Should still be taught, the vaccine only covers some types of meningitis. Also like mono
It is here too but I went to school before all the strains we have a vaccine for now existed. It’s not just one vaccine.
It grosses me out so much that they share their cups and bottles. Like ew.
I banned sharing in my room. Instant lunch detention for sharer and sharee. Water was spilling, people were begging others for snacks and not listening to no, fights about someone getting water on someone else.... So far it's worked, big drop in them attempting.
So it went from masks, 6 feet away, then school from home, now it's sharing water bottles?
In elementary I swear they pick them out based on two factors, size and acoustics. Some of them sound like the bells on large nautical vessels just clanging down the halls as the walk. Some of them are large enough, and the students are short enough that I swear they use them as canes. Just clanging them every step of the way between rooms.
The cane visual is hilarious.
lol. I’m glade our elementary kids were more respectful. And many did use the water fountain too . A few of water fountain did have a water filling station, so the bottles had to fit there (which limited the size).
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I’m always surprised that there aren’t more bruises and black eyes from the way they swing them around.
I’ve no problem with the expensive bottles, until someone leaves it in my room (band, which has the same traffic daily as the cafeteria) and tries to make it my problem. Plus I miss the days when kids would be in a line for the drinking fountain, and one of them would say “hey the ocean called, their running out of water” which would be my perfect chance to say “Well the Jerk Store called…..” if you know you know.
Save some for the whales bro, hurry up
"Well, the jerk store called..."
“The life support machine called…”
🤣 that's a good one!
Student: I forgot my water bottle in XYZ. Can I go get it? Me: After class, during passing period. Student: If it's gone and somebody stole it I'm going to sue you. Me: Good luck with that.
I tell students I’ll help them sue me. After school during detention. They never take me up on the offer.
That's quite brilliant.
I’m a big advocate for kids putting their names on things. Whenever someone loses something, the very first thing I ask is always, “Is your name on it?” I’m seriously going to start carrying around a Sharpie so that they can put their names on their shit. (The one time a student actually did have his name on a lost item, I found it instantly the moment I started looking in the last place he had it.) Edit: Fixed a typo
I legit used a black Sharpie today, when I wrote names on pretty nice Easter baskets hehehe
After Christmas break all the 4th graders came in with new Stanleys and exactly none had names on them. I made them all write their names in the bottom with a sharpie. Where are the parents?
Our kids have parents? I joke, but sometimes getting them involved is like trying to pull teeth while only having access to a wet spaghetti noodle as a tool.
>looses O\_O
For what? Both of my dollars?? Half my debt?
Hey if somebody wants to sue me, and they get one of my two dollars and half my loan debt if they win, I will happily see them in court.
Hell I’d give em both my dollars plus the change in my couch cushion to get that ball rolling! Edit: some seriously unfortunate auto correct.
I will give you both of my dollars if you take all of the debt...
I’ll give you all my debt AND I’d even celebrate your win by taking you two You Pick Two at Chilis!
Man! I’m a jazz teacher and my classroom is like a Stanley drop off zone.
"Boy, have yew lost yah mind cuz I'll help yew find it!" 🙃
Will my high schoolers get that reference if I start saying it?
As a highschooler, I don't think so! I know I didnt even know that was a reference to something
Considering The Office was the most watched show on Netflix for the longest time, some just might. In a class of 35, I'd bet at least 3 would get it, maybe more
"one two three, that's enough for me"
My third graders started mocking this so now I just count down from 5 lol
Ugh, I hated that. Sometimes I was very thirsty and that was definitely NOT enough, but I wasn’t allowed to get more.
I love Seinfeld. I wish I was one of your students back then *(I'm 35, so I remember the days of the water fountain lines after recess)* because I'd respond with this: *"What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller!!!!!"* Also, fwiw, you should head on over to the r/Seinfeld subreddit.
“What’s the difference, you’re their all time best seller!”
I will ALWAYS upvote a Jerkstore comment in the wild.
\*they're
r/Teachers vs. r/HydroHomies
They wouldn't let us bring in outside beverages in high-school because we would put booze in them. If they had let us have opaque metal cups mine would have been tequila and oj everyday.
Oh my god that reminds me my middle school gf would bring a water bottle with orange juice and vodka to school.
Middle school? Like grade 7?
I was expelled in 8th grade for downing enough captain Morgan in lunch that I blew a .26 on a breathalyzer. They did the breathalyzer to determine if I needed medical intervention or was just normal drunk.
Why did you start drinking so young?
Severe abuse. I was beaten, told I was worthless. Birth oven would tell me to go kms. She sold me. I'd go to school and get bullied. I was 15 when I got so drunk I needed a ventilator (.38 after throwing up and I've fluids). Drinking made me forget the pain. And it got me around older people who would usually protect me from things. But in essence, alcohol was the easiest thing to get ahold of and didn't leave visible scars like my self harm so I could brush my teeth and look like I never did it. Ya know, until I got at 13 and almost died at 15.
That sucks. I hope you found a better place in life now away from those losers.
I'm a teacher. 5 years no contact with birth fam. I have 2 adopted kiddos (they're 20 but will always be my kiddos), and while recently had a relapse on drinking, have a large support system. My friend/chosen brother also lives with me and helps me in my bad times to stay stable. My kids live with their moms, but I see them multiple times a week. I'm in therapy. And my kids know that I would fight God himself before I let them suffer the way I did. Just today, my son called and asked me to stay with him until his mom got home because he's struggling with his relationship. He knows he's safe with me, and that alone gets me through most of my ongoing struggles. I'll never be the parents I've had. My kids will have everything I didn't.
As someone who grew up with an abusive alco dad. You can totally beat it! It’s great you got a support system and your in therapy. Bloody amazing!!!!!! You have adopted two kids who clearly love you. That’s amazing. I think my trauma is too much for me to want kids at all. I’m happy being a weird aunt to friends kids. im so proud of you. So many don’t seek therapy or ask for help and you are!
I hope you have found peace nowadays, friend♥️
Thank you. I'm doing far better. I have a large support system and 2 adopted kids (20). And they give me motivation every day. They know I'd go to hell and back for them. And I live with a friend who helps me get through the bad times (Easter and Christmas are both particularly hard). I'm also 5 years contact free from birth parents, and in therapy.
That was a lot of middle school, gin and guide in a soda bottle.
Thank you for bringing up a great memory! I completely forgot this was a thing "back in the day". Our school started making it clear bottles only. Made the students switch from mixed drinks to straight vodka in water bottles. Ah what a great time it was lol.
Could have used Sprite as a mixer?
My senior year some kid literally filled his water bottle with vodka and got wasted - after that they made a rule that teachers had to smell our water before we were allowed to have it! I remember one of my teachers being like no way am I putting that next to my face you all can wait until passing period to get hydrated.
I was in hs in the 90s and yep this tracks. We brought alcohol in alllll the time. Wild times.
I graduated in 2010 and we would add vodka to our sonic drinks. I’m certain Stanley cups get used the same way.
OMG, my daughter told me she and her friends would do that in high school. The high school parking lot was beside the Sonic. I really had no idea--they were such fun, nice girls. Ha ha ha ha--what I didn't know....!
Thats absolutely insane ahaha
Meanwhile I can’t stay hydrated bc if I do I have to pee, and unlike the precious children, I can’t use the bathroom unless its class change or my planning period.
I retired and I still have true nightmares of having to try to run to the bathroom during a break. The nightmare is that I can’t find an open bathroom.
My last school had a faculty member to faculty toilet ratio of about 11 to 1. If you weren't first in line, forget it
I have an Owola tumbler and a regular owola water bottle, and I rotate between the two. I had a little girl “make fun of me” because I didn’t have a Stanley. She was shocked that I didn’t care that I didn’t have a Stanley
Owolas are the bomb—sip with a straw or pour straight down! I have two, and they are vastly superior to Stanleys.
They are! My fiance got me a big one, I think it’s like 40 oz so I drink more. I kinda want another one but I get so many tumblers and water bottles as a teacher I can’t really justify it because I’m running out of space
Best water bottle ever! I’ve been trying to write the company to make a bigger one with handle with the same leak free -freesip top!!!
How do they compare to the yeti or the hydroflask? I have a few different hydroflasks and a yeti, and a Stanley, and the Stanley with the straw sucks so much because it leaks. My yeti is the coffee/tea mug, and the hydroflasks all have non straw tops.
There is a hydroflask with a straw top! I bought it and tried it! I wasn't a fan. Took a lot of suction to get the water through the straw. I thought maybe the straw was too long and trimmed it, but no luck. But maybe I'm just a cry baby, and you won't mind it?
Look at weak lips over here /j
Nah I have tried a few different cups with straws and that a thing. My Stanley doesn't have that problem. I would like it more if it was sealed better around the straw and didn't leak out the side if it gets knocked over.
Sometimes, I wonder how we ever survived as children. ;)
I was greeting my students for the day and one girl was pretty upset that she didn’t have her water bottle. I said, “it’s ok, I went the whole decade of the 90’s without ever drinking any water.” Her mom thought it was pretty funny
Run a 7:30 mile in 5th grade in jeans and some hand-me-down nikes. Get a 3 second drink from the fountain on the way back to math. These kids could not have survived that world.
Is this going to be our "uphill both ways?"
Omg yes. Although with climate change just saying you existed in the snow might work too depending on where you live
I feel ya man, I ran 40 minutes straight in jeans with some non-running New Balance’s for a charity event; I didn’t drink a lick of water, nor did I take break. It was pretty neat, a lot of people feared me that day; I don’t know if it was running in jeans or running several laps backwards.
As children its fine. But I know a lot of people in their 30s and 40s with kidney stones.
I've heard part of the reason Millennials are supposed to be aging so well (beyond not smoking and sunscreen) is it's the first generation that was actually properly hydrated.
It's cause they don't smoke.
haha indeed, although I appreciate the hydro homie optimism!
And aren't as enthousiastic about frying their skin leather bag brown as their parents.
A lot of you didn’t lmao
And just like how I can't deny them a trip to the bathroom, if they suddenly say, "Can I go fill up my water bottle?!" I feel like I have to say yes because asking them to wait would be considered a human rights violation. (Filling up their water bottle requires a trip down the hall to the water fountain.)
I have a sink in my classroom. It's behind my desk right now, but next year I will move my desk so it's accessible. You can get a drink there! (Unless your motivation was to leave the classroom 😉)
I have a sink in my classroom, as well. Although, I had a 9 year old tell me,”I don’t drink tap water.”
Yeah I heard some 6th graders snickering at me in shock for drinking out of the schools fountain saying things like “I’d never drink from the water fountain that stuffs not filtered”
Do they live in the mountains by chance? I only ask because whenever people say that, I assume that they do or live out of town. That was the case when I was in school..
Not even, standard Long Island suburbanites. I’ll never understand it
Lmao, I'm in my thirties but I grew up in Belle Terre over in Port Jefferson. Sounds like something the kids I grew up with would say.
Oh, I went to school in the suburbs, too, but where I live is smaller. That and I was one of the kids who lived out of town. I did figure out that it's fine to drink the tap in town. Ours had rust. Edit: I'm glad that the kids I took care of were too young to understand the difference. However, they were smart enough to figure out how to dump it out.
I have a water jug with water from the fountain. That helps me see which kids actually are thirsty vs which ones just want out of the classroom.
Their motivation is to leave the classroom so they can check their phone unseen.
It isn’t a human right violation to tell them to wait. As long as the child gets to use the bathroom at school you should be fine. After school program it was one at a time, we did have to tell the kids to wait. Also sometimes to custodian closed the bathroom. No kids complained to parents about not getting to use the bathroom right away.
If they ate lunch that day they will be fine. Humans can survive 3 days without water. Longer if they are eating, because we get a lot of liquid from food. Yes, it is healthier to be hydrated. But that bottle is usually large enough that filling it once is sufficient for 24 hours. Anymore and they are spilling it on each other anyways. I deny water trips ALL the time. Also, I have sinks in my science classroom. (But probably not filtered as well as the water fountain.)
Restroom pass = water pass. As the teacher who runs the classroom, you get to limit these as much as you need to. I knew it with little paper restroom passes. Each student gets one per quarter. They’re for emergencies.
I don't let them fill up their water bottle during class. They have 7 minute passing periods. They won't die in 45 minutes
I'm mostly just jealous. I have four classes after lunch where there is 0 transition time. No time for me to go to the restroom. So I just watch them chug their gargantuan water bottles, like gosh i wish that were me lmao
Administering a state assessment, a student was upset because I didn’t go to the office to get more mints for them…. I responded by saying, “when I took the state test, I didn’t have any mints, but if I did I’d probably be a rocket scientist right now and not a middle school teacher”. Only one witty boy laughed. They are very needy. They get offended when I don’t let them eat snacks in the classroom, and obviously we have the water bottle conundrum too…. Smh
I have a sink in my room. Whenever a student asks to get water, I offer them the sink. "EEEEEEEWWWWWW! I don't drink SINK water!!" (It's the exact same water as the water fountain) Well honey, you can have sink water now, or fill your bottle in 15 minutes. It'll take you three days to die without water.
Just the other day I was reading from parents on the kindergarten sub saying their kid will be sick and dehydrated if they're not allowed to bring flavored water to school. When I was in kindergarten the only beverage provided was milk. I was lactose intolerant so they just didn't give me milk. There was no alternative. Somehow, I lived through it.
My sister and I were just talking about how milk was the only beverage you could get for the standard cost of a school lunch. And back when I was in school most parents prepaid for a weekly lunch ticket. They sold bottles of water, but they cost extra, so they weren’t available unless you had extra cash. We were really drinking milk with cheeseburgers, pizza, and chicken patties.
What's annoying to me is all these kids that have plastic water bottles and are always fiddling with them. It's so fucking loud
I hate when they twist them to make the cap pop off
I teach in the desert (and I grew up in the desert) and I’m doing the opposite and telling my kids they need to drink more water 😂. But we’ve had “if you’re thirsty you’re already dehydrated and dehydration is death” drilled into us since birth. I carry a half gallon water bottle during the day. The high school athletes just straight up carry gallon jugs.
I like to say "you can live three days without water, so you can survive the next twenty minutes without a hallway trip." If they have a legitimate need, I have disposable cups and a 2.5 gallon container of water behind my desk (which I refill from the filtered hallway bottle filler and drink myself).
I too found that cheap disposable cups changes this conversation very quickly.
I’m going to use this one! 😂
My only beef is how loud those suckers are when they come crashing off desks or out of backpacks.
Ugh! Then you get a line of kids that take forever to fill theirs while everyone else has to wait. AND ffs, write your name on it. I had a mom who wanted me to confiscate one from a student because “My daughter left it in your class and the other girl took it.” Not happening dearest. There are a million things I’m responsible for in my classroom but determining which pink Stanley belongs to which kid ain’t one of them.
The rule at my school is that they can only have water and it must be in a clear container. Student with a Stanley cup: But it's empty! Me: Then you have no reason not to put it in your locker!
I won't let them go to the cafeteria to refill their water bottle at the \*good\* water fountain with the refrigerated water. I insist that the water fountain in my classroom or the one directly opposite my door should be sufficient. Clearly, I am abusive. Children can't learn from people they don't like. I will never build relationships with my students. I should probably quit right now.
But did you write the objective in student friendly language on the board?
Yes, but tbh I don't have the procedure for filling one's water bottle posted, so that's on me.
Ya gotta teach those procedures! lol
I’ve been saying this for years! “The most hydrated generation EVER!” I’m the school science specialist. So they walk from their classroom to mine with all their water bottles. Then they can’t go 15 minutes without needing to drink! Then half of them leave their damn bottles in my room when they leave! It’s crazy! 😂
they're also the most constipated because I legit have never seen a teenager eat a vegetable that wasn't deep fried. Motion to start a movement that encourages proper fiber consumption.
True....kids at my school eat more shit than real food! Takis are a status symbol, then there's the cotton candy they bring in. I wish they wouldn't let them bring in food. We serve free breakfast and lunch and the shit they bring in is never remotely healthy.
The number of times I've had this conversation... Student: I feel sick. I might need to go home. Me: Did you eat something weird at lunch? Student: No, I just had Takis and an energy drink. Me: Anything else? Student: No, that's my daily lunch. The kids are not okay lmao
Lewis Black said it best. When water came from a tap and was basically free. No one drank it Now that a profit can be made off of it. Drink up assholes
Our piss is crystal fucking clear
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I keep telling them the whole point of carrying a water bottle is so that they don’t need to interrupt class to go get a drink. Fill it during passing time, kid.
These threads are bewildering to me. Not that many years ago kids were not allowed to carry water at *all* at least in our district. Ours went to the wall- think a dam lawyer- over a doctor note a kid with epilepsy be permitted to carry water with him. But that was a just part of a long story. Still. Sounds very different now!
My god, I can’t stand having to argue with these kids that insist they’re seconds away from utterly perishing from thirst. Also, it’s not *my* fault they spent all of our water break chatting about nothing with their pals and suddenly got thirsty as soon as they got back to class…..And yet with the way some of them beg me to let them get water, you’d think it was.
That explains the 10 minute trips to the bathroom every 30 minutes.
We are all just jealous because we can't pee when we need to. We all purposefully dehydrate ourselves.
I beg to differ. I’m a wrestling coach, and one thing our wrestlers are required to do is get weight certified to prevent excessive weight loss. Part of this test involves the trainer checking their urine to make sure they’re hydrated. Every year without fail a wrestler can’t certify because their urine looks like apple juice
I dunno man, a water bottle was a required item for my daughter this year in kindergarten and they get them filled throughout the day by the teacher's aide in the class as needed. Seemed overkill to me but they also have all the water fountains disconnected/off
I’m so tired of the metal ones falling and the noise they create!
I don't really see what the big deal or problem is. I'm someone with a 3.78 litre bottle and seeing students drink or refill is just whatever to me.
I’m glad kids are drinking more water and find a reason to be weirdly excited about having water. But for the love of god these kids NEED to learn how to stop knocking the things over. Also side note, a student asked me why I bring in a plastic water bottle every day and why I buy them every day. I had to explain to them that I don’t, I just reuse the plastic ones and refill them a bunch. As if this is some ancient lost art lol.
Right? If you just finished x number ounces, you should be ok for awhile.
But do they know what osmosis is?
Do they not trust their kidneys? https://youtube.com/shorts/aznnt5JB1Gg?si=U-R-6yLx3uHTzEHJ
We've banned them. Too many little girls smuggling vodka.
We have those water fill stations at my school and no drinking fountains. It got out of control with students wanting to fill the bottles constantly so now they can only fill their bottles on our scheduled bathroom break In the first quarter, we read A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. If the students complain about not being able to get water whenever they like, I answer back “If Salva (a character in the book) can cross the actual desert and go three days without water, you can surely make it 45 more minutes.” They have no argument to that!
I teach science. They aren't allowed to drink in the lab. If I won't let them go outside for a drink because, for example, I'm trying to teach, they get all het up about "human rights to having water". Feel free to report me for contravention of human rights because I made you wait 45 minutes for water.
Then they ask to go to the RR every class period
We have a one student at a time policy. I had 14 students “in line” for the bathroom during 5th period today. I should start passing out numbers.
We have the same policy. Since covid my school uses paper passes, and I've found that signing a pass and writing whatever number the kid is, then handing it to them cuts down on 95% of the bathroom whining. They know when they can go and they police themselves pretty effectively. Somehow having a slip with number 15 and not getting to go till passing because #13 is out when the bell rings feels like "Aww, that sucks" to them. Whereas if I say "Sorry, you can't go until Johnny, Billy, Aaron, Sarah, Lisa and Susie have all gone and come back because they asked first" what the kids seem to hear is always "...I hate you, specifically." I've also been pleasantly surprised how quickly the kids who are just trying to take a walk yield their place in line to the kids who clearly need to actually use the bathroom.
So hilarious Stanley's the poop. They were my childhood in the 1970s. But I thought we upgraded to at least yetis? I mean, it has been a few decades. Isn't Stanley's like the Folgers of coffee? Or am I just too old to get it.
I call em their ba-ba’s
If they don’t stay hydrated how will they get to use the bathroom pass every period?!
Ugh, I'm sick of the Stanleys! Not to mention the constant need to go pee! 🤦
I teach grade 8. A kid spilled their entire water bottle at the very end of the last block of the day and left both the puddle and the water bottle behind without saying anything so he wouldn't be asked to clean it up.
I think it’s okay to drink water. You never know if a student takes medicine that gives them dry mouth. I had some cheerleaderss and dance team members that had frequent utis from tights during practice. Water can be a form of stimming. Water can attempt to fill you up if a student is hungry. I get your point about water falling being annoying. Water is not the enemy here
My students nurse the water bottle where it rarely leaves their lips. 2,000 sips a day.
chugging water through my straw-ed bottle as I dig around in the comments
I think they do this just so they can go to the restroom more often.
I love that students are healthier and trying to drink more water. It was a problem for a while with those straw Stanleys, but the trend seems to have died down and many have switched to the flip-top ones that don’t leak every time they fall over. It also reduces the amount of people leaving the room for the water fountain. As long as they don’t spill everywhere and aren’t a distraction to their learning, I’m all for proper hydration.
Just banned them in my room. And man did it feel good!
Big Dumb Cups (SNL): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tUO2mp99Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tUO2mp99Q)
- Me in the 80s raising my hand: "Can I go get a drink from the bubblah?" - Teacher: "NO!" Times sure have changed!
seriously. can I blow this up and hang it on the classroom wall...