Washington, D.C., has left school children and teachers without access to drinking water after shutting off public school water fountains, a local math teacher says.
The city shut off the fountains as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools but has reportedly failed to supply enough water jugs as an alternative, according to Bethany Rosera, a math teacher at Stuart-Hobson Middle School.
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“We ran out of water [on Tuesday] and our admin drove twice to Costco to fill up their own car with water in the middle of the day so we could get through the end of the day and have some for [Wednesday] if a delivery didn’t occur,” Rosera said.
The school “communicated with [D.C. Public Schools] about the situation but the water was still not replaced,” Rosera explained.
Rosera vented about the shortage on Twitter, and her thread went viral.
“Y’all please don’t listen to anything @DCPSChancellor and @dcpublicschools says about safety when our school does not have adequate access to CLEAN DRINKING WATER ?? Instead, our school staff made midday runs to Costco because we were literally out of water,” she tweeted.
Y’all please don’t listen to anything @DCPSChancellor and @dcpublicschools says about safety when our school does not have adequate access to CLEAN DRINKING WATER ?? Instead, our school staff made midday runs to Costco because we were literally out of water, thread below:
— Bethany Rosera (@bethrosera) October 5, 2021
A truck delivered water to the school Wednesday morning — a response that Rosera said was because of the attention her tweet thread received.
“They have a continued pattern: they’ll ignore issues/not provide what they need to … until the community learns about the problem and it sparks outrage with the parents,” Rosera said. “And then, only the ‘loudest’ problems get solved immediately. There are schools with problems that aren’t tweeted about that aren’t acknowledged at all.”
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The Washington Examiner reached out to D.C. Public Schools for a comment but did not receive an immediate reply.
