<p>I know that high schoolers aren’t necessarily adults, but I can’t imagine a day in class as a college/grad student without something to drink. Maybe I’m just old enough to have forgotten what secondary school rules are like, but banning water bottles?</p>
<p>What’s next? Banning pens, because they can be used to write wrong answers?</p>
<p>No, banning money because it can be used to snort coke. ;)</p>
<p>Adults are such hypocrites - while the poor dehydrated kids run across the hallway to the nearest fountain to get a sip of leaded water, they help themselves to cookies and coffee in the teachers’ lounge! ;)</p>
<p>Jokes aside, D’s school has 2000 kids, and breaks between classes are only 5 min long! Try to get a drink out of one of those fountains while pushing your way through the crowds running to the portable on the other end of the campus! Banning water bottles would have caused a major uproar, and the administration is smart enough to pick their battles.</p>
<p>Thank god for CHARTER!</p>
<p>Not only can I bring water bottles <em>gasp</em> in the classroom, I can paste a bazillion stickers and even spray paint the color…ohhhh yeah.</p>
<p>While I agree that hydration is important if one is doing physical activity, most normal kids can go a few hours without having to drink something. Those of us that pre-date cheap plastic bottles managed to get through the school day just fine.<br>
At the end of the day in the school where I work, the janitors sweep up dozens of discarded plastic bottles from the hallways every day - many of which are still mostly full. Tomorrow Mom will send another, to be dropped on the floor before 10 AM and abandoned, kicked down the stairs, stomped on by another kid… can you tell I’m not a fan?</p>
<p>Yes, and yet if everything that created litter was banned, the average high schooler’s life would be very difficult indeed.</p>
<p>dragonmom,</p>
<p>I bet when you were in HS, many of the schools were less crowded and it was easier to actually get to a water fountain…</p>
<p>actually, when I was in high school there were 17portable buildings lined up along the side of the school (no plumbing inside), so the drinking fountain/student ratio was probably less than most schools today. About 1/3 of the classes were in portables.
I didn’t mean this to get personal, I just get frustrated that the water bottles are 1) such a waste environmentally and 2) such a source of fidgeting and time wasting in class (this is not a high school) and 3) such a mess all around the school.
High school kids toting Nalgene, fine with me.</p>
<p>Those of us that pre-date cheap plastic bottles managed to get through the school day just fine.
At the end of the day in the school where I work, the janitors sweep up dozens of discarded plastic bottles from the hallways every day - many of which are still mostly full. Tomorrow Mom will send another, to be dropped on the floor before 10 AM and abandoned, kicked down the stairs, stomped on by another kid… can you tell I’m not a fan?</p>
<p>Water bottles are expensive- I assumed we were talking about personal water bottles.At my daughters inner city school, if they treated their building like that, they would be the one cleaning it up. So they don’t. When I go into the building at the end of the day. I rarely see anything on the floor let alone full bottles. That would be a real hazard as some one could step on one in the crush of people and someone else could slip</p>
<p>EK4, having students clean the building would be considered indentured servitude at most schools! Was that remark ‘tongue in cheek’ or were you serious about having the students clean? --would certainly be effective, but wouldn’t fly at most public schools! Many high school kids don’t pick up after themselves so I can see that as being a real problem as well as a clear safety hazard!</p>
<p>Im serious- that is what they do for detention @ Garfield. Might as well make the kids realize their actions have consequences.
And actually picking up the school after trashing it is logical consequences.</p>
<p>Em, that is a wonderful solution to a school trash problem. I do not know if D’s school has a similar policy, but I suspect they have something in place to combat littering. There are regular trash clean up dates, and the hours count towards volunteer hr req. for NHS. D came back from one of those and complained that she only got 1 hr because there was no garbage in the bushes! I’ve been to her school many times, and I have not noticed any garbage or empty plastic bottles. However, there are a lot of Nalgene bottle-toting teens at her school.</p>
<p>This has to be a WA thing :)</p>
<p>For those of you with no water bottle policies at school, how do student athletes drink enough to stay hydrated? Do coaches supply water, do the athletes line up at a water fountain, are water bottles allowed to brought in for opening after school?</p>
<p>My school doens’t “ban” water. We’re not allowed to have any other drinks besides water in the school except at lunch or first thing in the AM in the lobby.</p>
<p>We’re not allowed to have/drink anything in the hallways period. We’re not allowed to keep open containers in our locker.</p>
<p>We’re permitted to have water if and only if the teacher allows it. There’s only about 2 or 3 of my teachers that don’t tho. </p>
<p>And depending on who you are you may be allowed to cary a sports water bottle thing.</p>