when you were at school did you

[Samcro]

drink water?
was reading a thread about it and it made me think.
back in the 70's when I was at school, I think we just had a drink at lunch time and that was it.

There was water at lunch, and there were water fountains, but I don't recall people using them a lot.

And a lot of the children would have walked home via playing in the park for a couple of hours (without parents) and I don't recall any drinks there at all.

We had a water fountain in the corridor which was used at break times and a jug of water at the dining tables at lunch (primary 1970s).

No. We had milk in the infants and there was a jug of water on the tables for lunch. No one used the water fountain!

No. We had a flask of squash in our lunchboxes that we had at lunch time but there were no other drinks, even after pe on a hot day. I started primary in 1985. I certainly don't remember being thirsty all the time either!

No. We had tiny glasses (made of actual glass) and a jug on the table at lunch. We weren't allowed to take our own drinks even if we had packed lunch - the concern then was for sticky spillages. I don't remember ever being desperate for a drink at school, but we definitely never had access to a drink during lessons. I started school in 1974.

I walked home. just under 3 miles. I don't even remember water fountains.

We had water fountains in every corridor and jugs of water on the dinner table at primary.
I cant remember for secondary

No. At school in from the early 80s to mid-90s, and we didn’t have access to drinks except for at lunch until 6th form. I don’t remember being really thirsty either, although if I drink that little these days I get a headache

Were children just immune to dehydration back then or something?

I was thinking this too. We had water fountains, from which it's hard to get a long drink, and water at lunch. Nothing in the classroom.

No, I didn't. I was massively bullied and the toilets was where they targeted you. So to make sure I didn't have to go in there, I didn't drink all day. Used to get regular bouts of cystitis as a result.

We could take squash in a flask or a carton of juice to have with a snack (Club, penguin or similar) at break and a small cup of water with lunch. That was it, a wonder we weren't all ill in hot weather!

I remember having this discussion when I was about 17 with a man I worked with who would’ve been in his 60s at the time. I had a part time job at a garden centre and all of us teens would be drinking throughout the day, always filling up our water bottles. It hadn’t ever really occurred to me that I never saw the “grown ups” doing this.

He said that having a couple of big glasses of water during morning tea break, and another couple at lunch were more than enough to keep him hydrated. And this was doing back breaking work in the gardens for 8/9 hours a day! He said back in his day at school kids never carried around water bottles. It was the first time I’d really
Given the matter any thought but I do think the importance of drinking water has been more drilled into the younger generations. My mum is 61 and I don’t think I’ve ever known her to carry a bottle with her. Myself and my 2 siblings (all 20s) are never caught without one.

I had a can of drink at lunchtime, that's it

Milk at morning break and water in plastic jugs at school dinners, or we could bring our own for either/both breaks but nothing outside those times at all. This was late 70's/early 80's and I don't remember being thirsty either.

I started school in 1972 and we had squash at break time and jugs of water on the table at lunch. I remember drinking out of bathroom taps when it was hot.
I used to get a lot of bad headaches as a child and I have suddenly made the connection, as I didn't get them nearly so often in the holidays and once I'd left school.

No, 80/90's.

In Junior school we had jugs of water on the table at lunch, but we would not have been allowed to get a drink in lesson time.

Then in Senior school we took our own drinks in and there was access to a vending machine and water fountains. Again we would absolutely not have been allowed a drink in lesson time.

Started school in 1980.

In infants, I had milk at morning break.

From juniors up, I had a carton of drink or something in my lunch, but that was all.

At senior, we could buy drinks, so I could buy at morning break if I wanted something.

But, no we didn't have access to water all day long, and I was never ill or dehydrated. Even in summer.

At primary in the 80s we had a small glass of water at lunchtime if wewanted, but nothing else. I still don’t feel thirsty much, and (unless it’s really hot) will happily just have a coffee at breakfast, maybe some water at lunch, maybe a cup of tea mid afternoon and a glass of water with supper.

At primary in the 80s we had a small glass of water at lunchtime if wewanted, but nothing else. I still don’t feel thirsty much, and (unless it’s really hot) will happily just have a coffee at breakfast, maybe some water at lunch, maybe a cup of tea mid afternoon and a glass of water with supper.

i forgot morning milk in primary. warm milk and a paper staw.

No . Avoided the toilets at all cost. Never used them at high school that I can remember, except the ones in the pe changing room.

Oh and by sixth form we had our own and used them.

Only at playtime/lunchtime. I also had cystitis so many times that I was in prophylactic antibiotics for most of my primary school years.

I must have been mostly dehydrated.