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.

S tarted school in 1969. Milk at break (often warm by then!) and water from those coloured metal jugs at dinnertime. No going to the loo during lessons though in those days so good thing we didn't drink much.

Nope. I remember always having a capri sun in my lunchbox for lunchtime in primary, and then I remember always carrying a bottle of diet coke in secondary 🙈 Nobody ever used the fountains. That was the 90s/2000s. Dunno how I never got dehydrated tbh.

I think it’s gone a bit far the other way but I must admit I did often feel very thirsty as a child.

No

Was only thinking this earlier

Had a horrible warm bottle of milk at break time and a plastic glass of water at lunch.

I read the threads on here now 'dc went an hour without her water bottle at school, should I complain' and think WTF

No, it's a relatively new thing, but a good thing. People didn't realise how important keeping hydrated is for the body then. I'm still terrible for remembering to drink and will often go all day with just coffee which is not good. Perhaps if we had been encouraged to drink more water when we were younger I would be better at remembering now.
My eldests couldn't go all day without a drink. Really only drinks water and milk, but drinks a lot. My youngest is the opposite. Hardly touches water. Infact he generally always comes back with the full bottle of water and most of the blackcurrant juice I send for his lunch.

We had metal water fountains outside-I don’t remember any inside. We had a drink in our lunchbox (carton of Um Bongo?!) or metal jugs which you could pour water from into teeny glasses. I think we also had bottles of milk in the morning in the first years of infants.

That exactly what I thought! In school in the 90s and we had a drink at lunch and morning break and that was it!

A small glass of water at much time and that was it. There were water fountains in the toilets but that was it.

Milk at morning break when we were tiny and a drink of squash again infants age in the afternoon. Water at lunch was from jugs on the table and there were no other drinks or water fountains that I remember. I used to drink a lot, and still do , at my meals so I didn't feel thirsty in between. I think it is important to drink plenty of fluids , particularly in the hot weather but I find people rummaging in their bags and swigging from a bottle mid conversation really irritating.

Yes, my school had water fountains and I was practically glued to them during the summer. I was constantly thirsty and drinking when I was a child and still am.

Turns out I have a chronic medical condition that requires huge amounts of water.

People just don't need to drink that much. If you drink a lot then your body seems to crave it, I have never been as thirsty as when I made a conscious effort to drink more!

That’s incredibly unhealthy. It sounds like you’ve starved your body for so long you’ve become completely deadened to your bodily needs.

Yes, each area of the school had push button fountains to fill bottles, they also had disposable cups with them. I started secondary school in 1999.

90’s kid here. We didn’t have anything except at lunch time. Drinks weren’t sold in the tuck shop. No one touched the water fountain because of “lurgy”

No we didn't.

Slightly tepid, slightly sour milk in teeny weeny bottles at infant school, put me off milk for life. Aluminium jugs with green plastic cups at lunch.

Secondary I had a Roland Rat lunchbox and flask, and when I grew up a bit, a 500ml plastic bottle. No water coolers, fountains or tuck shop in school at all. 6th form could make hot drinks in the common room.

Wet paper towel was the closest we got to being rehydrated by the 'nurse' if we looked like we were at death's door (or had visible injuries).

Started school mid-80s through to late 90s. Other than a cup of water at lunch time, it was just the fountains in the toilets at break. At least it was good preparation for teaching!
My wee was normally yellow to orange. I'm better hydrated these days!

No, we weren’t allowed water. I also got heat stroke multiple times at school because I got dehydrated and overheated.

I remember having jugs of juice in the tables in primary school and vending machines and lots of water fountains in secondary, but not using them unless it was after pe or on very hot days. I know I used to take a bottle of water with me. My dd is in primary and they gave there water bottles on their desks which they fill up during the day and she has another one in her lunch. My ds takes a 2 litre bottle in each day and he also refills it during the day. I didn't realise how much they drank until lockdown.

Milk at infants, water at lunchtime, that was it.

Mind you in East Lancs it wasn't exactly cracking the flags much

Or the infamous green milkshake 🤮

We used to ask to go have a drink. That was in the 90s

Primary school: water fountains and a flask of squash in my lunch box.
Secondary school: I used to put a bottle of squash in the freezer so it would be cold all day in the summer but nothing the rest of the time.

Milk at break and water at lunch. There were water fountains but the boys used to spit on the spout so you'd be disgusted to use it. I do remember being thirsty often as a child and often wonder why people on here sneer at DC having water bottles.

Nope.

Just a small cup of water at lunch. Secondary school nothing at all. Survived somehow!

I went to primary school in the 80's. We used to take a flask of squash for lunch. No drink at any other time. There was a water fountain which people used to queue to use when it was hot. You used to get a count of 5 to drink from it!