Free menstrual products in bathrooms

[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.

No, that is not the only role of a school and never has been. Who are you to decide what school should “be about.”

[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.

Schools job is to educate. They can’t do that for a girl who is bleeding and soaking her pants.

[Anonymous]

This is again one of those things that men should have no say it or even be a part of the conversation. So many men in this thread mansplaing what a girl should do when she has her period.

[Anonymous]

My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

[Anonymous]

If the people who oppose this think that putting tampons in girls bathrooms is the worst thing going on in middle and high school bathrooms, you obviously don't have kids in middle or high school. This is the least of the issues.

The reason that girls are embarrassed to go to the nurse to get these products is because, as shown on this thread, it still appears to be some taboo topic vs a natural part of life. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

This is kind of him but he should not pay for it and that is the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

At least he’s trying. That’s the point. Some posters would rather have kids stay home those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the people who oppose this think that putting tampons in girls bathrooms is the worst thing going on in middle and high school bathrooms, you obviously don't have kids in middle or high school. This is the least of the issues.

The reason that girls are embarrassed to go to the nurse to get these products is because, as shown on this thread, it still appears to be some taboo topic vs a natural part of life. Grow up.

They are growing up; but they aren't grown up yet. Their feelings of shyness and embarrassment at that age are perfectly normal. Other kids' behaviors in mocking and shaming girls has never stopped -- they aren't grown up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

Right? I cannot imagine myself at that age asking any teacher, let alone a male teacher, for a tampon. It's like saying, "excuse me, I'd like to take this moment away from the class discussion and ask you all to focus on my vagina and what's happening down there right now." It's not taboo, it's just nobody's business. Stock the ladies room like a normal school and let girls have their privacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

At least he’s trying. That’s the point. Some posters would rather have kids stay home those days.

I mean good for him, but it’s not really as good as just having them in the bathroom where they belong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

Right? I cannot imagine myself at that age asking any teacher, let alone a male teacher, for a tampon. It's like saying, "excuse me, I'd like to take this moment away from the class discussion and ask you all to focus on my vagina and what's happening down there right now." It's not taboo, it's just nobody's business. Stock the ladies room like a normal school and let girls have their privacy.

Amen!!

[Anonymous]

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

I miss textbooks too, but this ^ is a really stupid take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s male science teacher has menstrual products. He has girls at home and said it’s something he wants to have on hand if anyone needs it. He tells them where it is at the beginning of the year.

What if instead of in the bathrooms they give each teacher a set and the teacher can request more if they run out. Some teachers will be more likely to be asked if they are female/kind, but at least they’ll be at school but not in a place that could be vandalized or stolen

Girls would much rather not have to announce to the whole class they are on their period.

Right? I cannot imagine myself at that age asking any teacher, let alone a male teacher, for a tampon. It's like saying, "excuse me, I'd like to take this moment away from the class discussion and ask you all to focus on my vagina and what's happening down there right now." It's not taboo, it's just nobody's business. Stock the ladies room like a normal school and let girls have their privacy.

Amen!!

PP said he announces at the beginning of the year where they are kept. I take that to mean that girls can help themselves. No announcement necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I miss textbooks too, but this ^ is a really stupid take.

Exactly. It’s luke saying no TP and paper towels. How dumb do you have to be to think like that.