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.

I don't remember ever wearing sun cream to school either or taking a sun hat. It's quite amazing how we all survived really!

I used to drink at lunch times and play out for hours without a drink. I haven’t changed much now. I now have kidney damage.

No, only at lunchtime. At secondary school there was a vending machine for tea and coffee that could be used at breaks, but the tea and coffee was so foul that no one bothered with it. I don't remember any rules stopping drinks during the day, but it was simply never thought of.

No I would go all day without a drink in school. Never gave it a second thought. I never ate breakfast all through secondary school so no drink in the morning either. I don’t remember being thirsty when I got home although I probably had orange squash with my tea.

My DC were in primary in the late 90's, I remember their teacher saying research had shown that having access to water during lessons was shown to be beneficial so they were asking parents to send in water bottles. I did so, although it seemed odd at the time as it hadn't happened before. I think that's when it started.

I remember drinking fountains-inside & outside.

So unlimited when outside but perhaps only a quick mouthful on the way past when inside.

Starting back in Sept, we probably missed these very hot (few) days!

I also doubt that adults were constantly drinking, so it perhaps wouldn't occur that kids should be.

Water was available though at my school, but not on demand!

At 2ndry I don't remember drinking fountains, but do remember making a cup from a paper towel & drinking in the loos!

Most people just drank from water fountains until late in high school, when many brought in coffee or bought from a vending machine. I can remember them being banned during tests or exams (US in an area with exams each term).

They expected us to have water bottles for sports/PE from about middle school onward, some sports enforced that more than others.

Late 70s primary school. Only opportunity for a drink was at lunch time. No water fountains, no water in the classroom. I had apple juice in a yellow Kermit the frog thermos flask.

Primary school - yes, we were running around at break times and there was always a queue for the water fountains. Would sometimes scoop up tapwater in loo if desperately thirsty in lesson time.

Secondary usually just at lunchtime, less running around. If it was hot there was a water fountain available. Think most people got water from tap in loos after PE. Again, hope but not so sure it was actually drinking water!

Oh and hot summers I'd freeze a plastic bottle of water and take that to school, but most of the year water bottles wasn't a thing.

No, I went to primary school in the 60s and we never had water apart from a small glass at lunch time.

It is probably why I had a lot of headaches as well as legs so dry they looked like cracked earth.

I don't remember ever wearing sun cream to school either or taking a sun hat. It's quite amazing how we all survived really!

Well sunburn was a pretty common experience. Imagine some people got skin cancers as a consequence, and some didn't survive. The ones that didn't just aren't around to tell us about it.

Also omg I'd forgotten those thermos flasks everyone had in the 80s! You'd buy a plastic lunchbox with matching thermos.

It's funny how you forget these things. I remember my mother who worked in a college of FE being scandalised that the students couldn't get a hot drink - only cold ones from a machine. I remember her saying to a relative "I'd be very annoyed if Iwant couldn't have a hot drink all day!"

Then of course I told her that not only could I not have a hot drink at school, but only 2 cold(ish) drinks in total. Actually she looked annoyed when I told her - but with me not with school, because she knew that really and had been OK with it for years!

My junior school installed a water fountain the year I started (1990). If it wasn't working we just drank straight from the taps. At secondary most people brought a bottle but there were also drinking fountains. There was no drinking during lessons though, except perhaps P.E. on a hot day.

We wouldn't have been allowed to have water bottles out in class. I do remember carrying a water bottle and drinking from it at break time, because we used to freeze them in the summer so you had ice cold water all day as the ice melted.

In primary school there was a water fountain. And we had thermos flasks in our lunch boxes! Mine always had squash in.

No, didn't drink anything all day. Couldn't go into the toilets to use the water fountains as that's where the bullies/smokers went so it was a no-go area for everyone else. But at least I didn't need the loo because I didn't drink anything. Used to be gasping for a drink by the time I got home.

I had school dinners at some point too and remember squash (orange or blackcurrent) but what I tended to have was milkshake! They had strawberry, chocolate, banana, vanilla and lime Hardly anyone liked the lime one because it looked weirdly green. We called it witch milkshake and I'd always have it when it was there because I liked being the weird one who would drink it :o

In secondary school the lunchtime drinks were a choice between a tiny round carton of orange juice, kwenchy kups which I hated because they tasted of that sweetener with the bitter aftertaste, and my favourite, Yazoo milkshake! The orange juice was OK but it was room temperature and a tiny amount. Sometimes they had pineapple or apple juice instead.

Primary school in the 80's/90's we had a water fountain and then a flask or carton of juice for lunch. Secondary there was a water fountain too but nobody ever drank from it because people stuck chewing gum on it, spat in it and other gross things.

I was at primary school in the mid 70's, so it included the long hot summer of 76. No water available except at lunchtime. Milk was available for morning break. Our school playing field had absolutely no shade, not a single tree. We were probably wearing polyester too (no school uniforms )....how we didn't collapse after a game of tag I don't know!

No drinks outside of dinner hall at primary school except on sports day when we all had those bulk buy square cartons with a little red straw - might have been calypso cups or something like that. In senior school drinks at break/lunch only, from vending machine or food queue - usually panda pop fizzy drinks. By sixth form (2004!) we were allowed to take bottles of water to the classroom which we could refill at the newly installed water dispenser. I don't remember being desperately thirsty except if it was very hot!

Now though I always have drinks and snacks packed for my DCs even if we're only out for a short time.

I started school in early 1970s in California.
We had (often used) drinking fountains in all the public places but not water bottles in class.

I dislike someone putting old days on a pedestal. Innovation and change are good things more often than not.

I was at primary school in the 80s. I used to take a drink to have at lunch time and in hot weather the teachers would let us go out to the cloak room to have some. I remember being really thirsty a lot and getting lots of headaches. They did give us very weak squash on sports day.
At secondary school I always had a drink in my bag so I used to have some at break times as well as lunch.

I’m glad schools now give kids access to water all day, one of my kids would really struggle without it. The other one never seems to want to drink. 🙄

Primary school in the 80s and we had lots of water fountains inside and outside and we used them a lot. Everybody had a thermos flask in their novelty lunchbox or jugs of water at lunch. Plus a carton of milk twice a day. We were well hydrated. Secondary school from 92-97 and we all carried water bottles as well as having water fountains all over the place.

1960s.
1/3 pint of milk at morning break which I drank, and a jug of water on the table at lunchtime which I did not drink.
I didn't drink water until I was in my 20s, even if I was thirsty.
I had a glass of home made squash when I got home from school.

I started primary in 1960, and apart from the revolting warm curdled milk at break time, and a glass of water with lunch, we didn’t drink at school.
Nobody carried a water bottle around either.
I wonder if the modern need for endless water is because people are continually grazing on salty snacks, and require water to excrete all the excess sodium.?
We had no snacks at all, just three meals a day. There were no supermarkets full of processed junk, and a small individual bar of chocolate would be divided between 4 of us as a weekend treat.

I saw my first supermarket at the age of 10, and remember the exotic delights of peanut butter, tinned sweetcorn, etc. But we still never bought crisps or popcorn, and ready meals weren’t really a thing then.