How do you provide drinking water in a remote portable classroom?
Portable classrooms sitting hundreds of feet away from the main building leave students without a reliable water source, especially when families cannot afford to send water bottles from home. Teachers are forced to choose between wasting instructional time on long walks to distant fountains or letting students go dehydrated.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Bringing personal water bottles from home
- 2Using classroom water pitchers funded by teachers or schools
- 3Ordering water delivery service trials like Sparklett's
- 4Raising funds for water coolers through DonorsChoose
- 5Requiring students to wait until regular breaks or before and after class
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Many of the kids are McKiney Vento. Water bottles are not coming from home, unfortunately.”source ↗
macaroni_monster · r/Teachers · 9 upvotes
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