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What best describes your experience with it?
 
Half-day kindergarten through twelfth grade PSF at Mt. Trailor in WS/FC, and I've never heard of this SWISH mess. Or, perhaps I have repressed those memories.
 
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I went to school in a rural area of NC where a lot of kids got their water from wells instead of fluoridated city water. Swish was a foul-tasting mouthwash us farm kids were forced to do on a monthly (IIRC) basis to get a dose of fluoride. Teacher would have a giant squirt bottle of sickly green liquid, we'd all get a little dixie cup with our dose, then we'd have to swish it around in our mouths for a whole minute, trying not to gag, until authorized to spit it back into the cup. Parents could sign a waiver to get you out of it. My parents not only made me do SWISH, they also fed me fluoride tablets, with the result that I now have slightly discolored teeth from over-fluoridation. Thanks, Mom.
 
Maybe it was a rural thing, or it got phased out by the time the #MILLENIALBULLSHIT riff raff really got going?
 
I remember doing it in elementary school but not sure how many grades.
 
I'm Wake Co. PSF and had never heard of this.
J is Forsyth and Buncomb Co. PSF and did it.
 
I remember doing this in Kindergarten, First and Second Grades in Cumberland and Rowan Counties. Not something we looked forward to.
 
Yeah, I think that anybody who knows what this is probably went to a backwoods Deliverance style school. Congrats on getting out and learning how to use a computer.
 
Deacon923 said:
Spoiler:

I went to school in a rural area of NC where a lot of kids got their water from wells instead of fluoridated city water. Swish was a foul-tasting mouthwash us farm kids were forced to do on a monthly (IIRC) basis to get a dose of fluoride. Teacher would have a giant squirt bottle of sickly green liquid, we'd all get a little dixie cup with our dose, then we'd have to swish it around in our mouths for a whole minute, trying not to gag, until authorized to spit it back into the cup. Parents could sign a waiver to get you out of it. My parents not only made me do SWISH, they also fed me fluoride tablets, with the result that I now have slightly discolored teeth from over-fluoridation. Thanks, Mom.
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this makes the most sense, i figured most people lived in places with fluoridated city water
 
BiffTannen said:
Yeah, I think that anybody who knows what this is probably went to a backwoods Deliverance style school. Congrats on getting out and learning how to use a computer.
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Props to Wake Forest for giving me those schollies and rescuing me from my backwoods existence.
 
Hm we did it I think once every week or two in my elementary school (but I wanna say only for maybe 1st-2nd grade?), and the majority of my school defs was drinking fluoridated city water, so I'm not sure it was limited to just the total country areas.
 
CDeacMan said:
Myers Park dudes
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