Free menstrual products in bathrooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Montgomery County Council is holding a meeting to discuss placing free menstrual products in bathrooms.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a really bad idea? Sure, it feels good and it’s very nice. The reality will be those dispensers are going to be vandalized, and the menstrual products will be stolen. I guarantee every time a new sash of tampons and pads are placed out they’ll be wiped out and then when a girl really needs it, there won’t be there.

This will end up being a giant waste of money between the constant repairs and replacement of the dispensers and the daily restocking of the menstrual products products.

Are Council members not aware of how bad high school bathrooms are? Middle school bathrooms aren’t fantastic but they’re not regularly vandalized like the high school bathrooms are.

I’m not opposed to menstrual products being kept in the health room but putting them in bathrooms will be a disaster.

Bad idea. Nurses office should have them.
Does no one remember the tik tok challenge bathroom destruction

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Anonymous wrote:Stupid idea, the nurse has them no need to waste money they don’t have on dispensers.

So every time a girl needs a pad or a tampon she needs to run to the nurse first? You must be a guy.

Girls have been going to school for a long time. We all managed to figure this out. If you want to donate some boxes, the nurse could give a box to a FARMS student. But at some point, people need to step up and provide for themselves.

I always tell my 11 year old the same thing. Want a tampon? Get a job loser!!!!

Or go to the school nurse? Is that really so hard?

Yes, it easily could be. I could go through some of the reasons that might make this difficult, but I’m sure you can imagine them yourself. Instead, I’d ask you to imagine all of the students— every last one, especially the boys— going to the Health Suite every time they need, or even might need, a few square of toilet paper. Instead of darting unobtrusively into a nearby restroom, the expectation is that they go to the Health Suite, get the toilet paper, make it to the restroom without an unfortunate mess, then return to class. For some kids, this might happen more than once a day. The lines at the Nurse’s Office during the lunch periods— not to mention the impact on the health suite staff — will likely be less than ideal, at best.

Sounds sort of crazy when you subject every student to this, doesn’t it?

No it sounds crazy when you make a.false equivalence like tampons and toilet paper.
Back in our day the nurse had a basket eith tampons and pads. You walked in. Picked one up and left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Montgomery County Council is holding a meeting to discuss placing free menstrual products in bathrooms.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a really bad idea? Sure, it feels good and it’s very nice. The reality will be those dispensers are going to be vandalized, and the menstrual products will be stolen. I guarantee every time a new sash of tampons and pads are placed out they’ll be wiped out and then when a girl really needs it, there won’t be there.

This will end up being a giant waste of money between the constant repairs and replacement of the dispensers and the daily restocking of the menstrual products products.

Are Council members not aware of how bad high school bathrooms are? Middle school bathrooms aren’t fantastic but they’re not regularly vandalized like the high school bathrooms are.

I’m not opposed to menstrual products being kept in the health room but putting them in bathrooms will be a disaster.

Bad idea. Nurses office should have them.
Does no one remember the tik tok challenge bathroom destruction

It can take a long time to haul ass to the health room, a bathroom, and back to your classroom. I’m glad to hear that school bathrooms have the supplies the students need.

If this bill is for public restrooms in businesses, that’s interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are we wasting money on printing worksheets? Kids won't fill them out.

Why are we wasting money on classrooms? Kida will just play hooky.

Schools are there to provide education. Worksheets and classrooms are part of that function. In fact, I would rather have schools provide textbooks instead of tampons.

Is there nothing that people can provide for themselves, rather than relying on government?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stupid idea, the nurse has them no need to waste money they don’t have on dispensers.

So every time a girl needs a pad or a tampon she needs to run to the nurse first? You must be a guy.

Girls have been going to school for a long time. We all managed to figure this out. If you want to donate some boxes, the nurse could give a box to a FARMS student. But at some point, people need to step up and provide for themselves.

A lot of girls are absent when they have their periods, some due to inadequate access to hygiene products. This is a relatively small cost that can have a big impact for some students.

Please no. If girls are absent because they have their period, they are telling their parents they have cramps. Again, donate boxes to the food pantry, if you are concerned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think we owe it to girls to try it before we declare it a failure.

+1 I remember being too poor to buy an adequate amount of feminine hygiene supplies.

+2 If we assume that part of a school's role is to give students the tools they need to be successful while they are in the school building, then feeding them and giving them access to hygiene products is part of that overall goal.

While I don’t have an aversion to providing menstrual products, we have to stop expanding the definition of what schools are supposed to provide. Schools are about educating and teaching skills, not providing all of life’s necessities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we wasting money on printing worksheets? Kids won't fill them out.

Why are we wasting money on classrooms? Kida will just play hooky.

Schools are there to provide education. Worksheets and classrooms are part of that function. In fact, I would rather have schools provide textbooks instead of tampons.

Is there nothing that people can provide for themselves, rather than relying on government?

MCPS has the money to do both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we owe it to girls to try it before we declare it a failure.

+1 I remember being too poor to buy an adequate amount of feminine hygiene supplies.

+2 If we assume that part of a school's role is to give students the tools they need to be successful while they are in the school building, then feeding them and giving them access to hygiene products is part of that overall goal.

While I don’t have an aversion to providing menstrual products, we have to stop expanding the definition of what schools are supposed to provide. Schools are about educating and teaching skills, not providing all of life’s necessities.

If kids don't have what they need, they cannot learn. That's why some kids act out to deflect from these things.

[Anonymous]

I worked at a school that had them but the pads and tampons that were stocked were not the ones that teens girls used. Most teens just asked a friend if they needed a pad / tampon and all the girls keep little period kits in their lockers so if someone runs out, there are countless other kids who have them. The machine didn't get vandalized but it was just a stagnant fixture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a school that had them but the pads and tampons that were stocked were not the ones that teens girls used. Most teens just asked a friend if they needed a pad / tampon and all the girls keep little period kits in their lockers so if someone runs out, there are countless other kids who have them. The machine didn't get vandalized but it was just a stagnant fixture.

What lockers. Our hs does not give the kids lockers.

[Anonymous]

Until they provide textbooks I don’t want to hear anything about free for all maxi pads and tampons!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we owe it to girls to try it before we declare it a failure.

+1 I remember being too poor to buy an adequate amount of feminine hygiene supplies.

+2 If we assume that part of a school's role is to give students the tools they need to be successful while they are in the school building, then feeding them and giving them access to hygiene products is part of that overall goal.

While I don’t have an aversion to providing menstrual products, we have to stop expanding the definition of what schools are supposed to provide. Schools are about educating and teaching skills, not providing all of life’s necessities.

So are you prepared to send your kid with soap and toilet paper?

Why is this different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we owe it to girls to try it before we declare it a failure.

+1 I remember being too poor to buy an adequate amount of feminine hygiene supplies.

+2 If we assume that part of a school's role is to give students the tools they need to be successful while they are in the school building, then feeding them and giving them access to hygiene products is part of that overall goal.

While I don’t have an aversion to providing menstrual products, we have to stop expanding the definition of what schools are supposed to provide. Schools are about educating and teaching skills, not providing all of life’s necessities.

So are you prepared to send your kid with soap and toilet paper?

Why is this different?

What about clothes? They are a necessity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Montgomery County Council is holding a meeting to discuss placing free menstrual products in bathrooms.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a really bad idea? Sure, it feels good and it’s very nice. The reality will be those dispensers are going to be vandalized, and the menstrual products will be stolen. I guarantee every time a new sash of tampons and pads are placed out they’ll be wiped out and then when a girl really needs it, there won’t be there.

This will end up being a giant waste of money between the constant repairs and replacement of the dispensers and the daily restocking of the menstrual products products.

Are Council members not aware of how bad high school bathrooms are? Middle school bathrooms aren’t fantastic but they’re not regularly vandalized like the high school bathrooms are.

I’m not opposed to menstrual products being kept in the health room but putting them in bathrooms will be a disaster.

Bad idea. Nurses office should have them.
Does no one remember the tik tok challenge bathroom destruction

Some kids were dicks on social media a few years ago? Let's make life more difficult for girls!

Hey dickwad, they already added menstrual products to bathrooms. Go find another way to oppress women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a school that had them but the pads and tampons that were stocked were not the ones that teens girls used. Most teens just asked a friend if they needed a pad / tampon and all the girls keep little period kits in their lockers so if someone runs out, there are countless other kids who have them. The machine didn't get vandalized but it was just a stagnant fixture.

Ok?