I am glad that the worst problem we had in my high school was that the dress code said guys couldn't wear earrings. I knew one of the student council members on the committee that revised the dress code, and she told me that the reason was one of the administrators flat-out said in a meeting they had that if guys wore earrings, it turned them gay.
You've just described why Texas is such a crazy-quilt mess of competing administrations for every podunk venue. Every time the Lege talks about combining whole districts into six or seven mega-district to save state money, time, and sanity, it falls through, because otherwise the otherwise unemployable losers who come up with shit like this wouldn't be able to do so. Based on my experiences with school administrators, I used to think that they were all the unpopular kids who desperately wanted revenge and took it out on the next generation: now I know that these are the twits who were sitting in the back and eating paste during senior year and discovered that nobody else wanted the job.
I had a friend who got warned by the assistant principal because she wore one red Keds shoe and one black Keds shoe to school, with opposite-colored socks, for the hell of it. OMG THE FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION!
If I didn't know for a fact that my old high school principal was still in Lewisville (in fact, the evil old man just got a high school named after him, which is like naming a culinary school after Alf Packer), I'd suspect that he moved to a new district. This sounds exactly like one of his crazy power trips.
Okay, if school shootings are that big a deal there, then the school should permit clear bags for all students and free pads and tampons in every ladies' bathroom. Dumbasses.
As the parent of a teenage girl who already has enough problems every month because of the short class-changeover times and the fact that ibuprofen and the like can only be administered by the school nurse, I'm just completely steamed about this.
(That message thread makes interesting if somewhat bizarre reading ... particularly the ongoing hijack between the "heavy periods are normal" folks vs. the "heavy periods are abnormal" ones .... .)
Yeah, at my school, technically every medication was supposed to be turned over to the nurse for administration, but in practice nobody did so and nobody cared. It's probably not that way now.
(I'm now into the posts arguing Library of Congress terminology! XD)
Geez, reading this article makes me think I went to a high school where anarchy reigned supreme! We had no such rules. There were TWO rules I can remember administration harping on in the four years I was at high school: 1. When class is in session the halls have to be empty enough the principal could fire a cannonball down them and not hit anyone 2. No transparent clothing
That was pretty much it.
I find it hilarious, in a sick sort of way, that the school administration even considers kids who carry backpacks to be threats. In my day the studious kids carried backpacks and the rebels/troublemakers/gang kids didn't. It isn't COOL to carry a backpack. You just had a jacket with enough pockets to carry your cigarettes, a lighter, and maybe a pencil.
You could have permanently fastened my backpack to my back because that thing went EVERYWHERE with me. School to band/basketball/kungfu practice to part time job after school to getting together with my friends. I always had a back pack with me and it wasn't until last year that I started to carry a purse.
i personally didn't have so many problems with irregular, unpredictable cycles, but i get it pretty heavy, and i have SEVERE cramps if uncontrolled by ibuprofen every 4 hours. if i couldn't carry my painkillers with me, i'd probably be going to the emergency room every month. i guess if they foot the bill every time, i don't have to worry about that too much, but that would still cause me unnecessary extreme pain and suffering every month, and i'd love to sue their asses for that, dude.
And this is why I did Independent Study for high school. Jesus. What the fuck? What kind of idiot thought that was a good policy? Putting aside the whole pads-and-tampons thing, don't students need bags to carry other stuff around? Stuff like school supplies, food, and water? How on earth can anyone reasonably expect students to forgo bags altogether? But the idea that the security and administrators are grilling these girls about their menstrual cycles is just disgusting. That is none of their goddamn business, and it makes me froth at the mouth to imagine those poor girls enduring that kind of discomfort and humiliation.
God, if they were my daughters, I'd pull them out of that school so fast it would make the administrator's head spin. And they'd get slapped with a lawsuit ASAP. I'm amazed nobody has sued them yet.
As someone with endometriosis, lemme just say, if they'd tried to stop me from carrying around my emergency supplies of pads, tampons, and ibuprofen in school, I would have found a way to carry a gun.
Okay, my school had some dumb rules, but nothing like this. I very much believe that matters having to do with the bathroom and such are completely private and the school has no business butting in. I never had anyone grill me about periods. In fact one nurse was a saint and called a ride to come get my because the cramps had made me so sick I couldn't move, much less sit through class. However I actually skipped school for an entire week when one teacher refused to let me leave the class to use the bathroom when I had a UTI. I think this is worse. Cheers for the students protesting, I hope some of the teachers and parents stand up for their students rights as well.
I am appropriately outraged and offended, but after reading the entire comments thread, which is pretty interesting, I am mostly just left with a desire to punch the next woman who implies to me that I'm idiotically putting myself at high risk for all sorts of cancers by not doing the sensible thing and using birth control pills to eliminate my period. Punch her in the face.
*nods* What daft people. The pill does not eliminate mentrual cycles. *rolleyes* Besides, there's warnings that the pill might cause cancers. Someone needs to get a clue. *sigh*
That has to be the stupidest policy ever. Not only the humiliation for the girls, but also what the heck are students supposed to carry their homework and junk in? Hurray for carrying around a pile of heavy textbooks and papers, crashing into someone in the hall, and being ten minutes late for class because your stuff is scattered all over the building. -_-
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If I had a child in that school, I would be down there so fast!
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Although down in the links there's a link to a court that upheld an appeal, exonerating a school from strip-searching a girl for ibuprofen.*
* Not that the school should be conducting strip searches anyway.
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I am glad that the worst problem we had in my high school was that the dress code said guys couldn't wear earrings. I knew one of the student council members on the committee that revised the dress code, and she told me that the reason was one of the administrators flat-out said in a meeting they had that if guys wore earrings, it turned them gay.
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It'd be nice if they'd do this anyway. Because nothing says "reliable" like "teenage girl's period," right?
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As the parent of a teenage girl who already has enough problems every month because of the short class-changeover times and the fact that ibuprofen and the like can only be administered by the school nurse, I'm just completely steamed about this.
(That message thread makes interesting if somewhat bizarre reading ... particularly the ongoing hijack between the "heavy periods are normal" folks vs. the "heavy periods are abnormal" ones .... .)
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(I'm now into the posts arguing Library of Congress terminology! XD)
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1. When class is in session the halls have to be empty enough the principal could fire a cannonball down them and not hit anyone
2. No transparent clothing
That was pretty much it.
I find it hilarious, in a sick sort of way, that the school administration even considers kids who carry backpacks to be threats. In my day the studious kids carried backpacks and the rebels/troublemakers/gang kids didn't. It isn't COOL to carry a backpack. You just had a jacket with enough pockets to carry your cigarettes, a lighter, and maybe a pencil.
You could have permanently fastened my backpack to my back because that thing went EVERYWHERE with me. School to band/basketball/kungfu practice to part time job after school to getting together with my friends. I always had a back pack with me and it wasn't until last year that I started to carry a purse.
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i personally didn't have so many problems with irregular, unpredictable cycles, but i get it pretty heavy, and i have SEVERE cramps if uncontrolled by ibuprofen every 4 hours. if i couldn't carry my painkillers with me, i'd probably be going to the emergency room every month. i guess if they foot the bill every time, i don't have to worry about that too much, but that would still cause me unnecessary extreme pain and suffering every month, and i'd love to sue their asses for that, dude.
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God, if they were my daughters, I'd pull them out of that school so fast it would make the administrator's head spin. And they'd get slapped with a lawsuit ASAP. I'm amazed nobody has sued them yet.
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