Should Students Also Be Required To Go To The Nurse’s Office For Toilet Paper?
To the Editor:
As an individual who no longer menstruates, but has approximately 40 years under their “belt” doing so, I take issue with the suggestion that any Newtown student should be expected to go to the nurse for a tampon (“Another Big Reason For School Vouchers,” The Letter Hive, February 9). My memory is good enough to remember the awful feeling of needing, unexpectedly, period products while none are readily at hand, particularly at school among my peers. The suggestion that menstruating students be required to go to the nurse’s office for a tampon puts students in a position of publicizing their bodily functions and needing to seek permission to care for their personal needs. Should students also be required to go to the nurse’s office for toilet paper? All menstruating students in Newtown should have necessary products available to them at the nurse’s office and in the restrooms. Period.
Wendy Leon-Gambetta
Newtown
Should ‘menstruating students’ from 3rd grade and up be able to walk into the boys bathroom to get their ‘supplies’ when these items are readily available in the girls and multi-gender bathrooms? No. Period.
So, it’s preferable to go into the BOYS bathroom to get a tampon instead of the nurse’s office. What happens if boys are in there fighting or vaping and a ‘menstruating student’ walks in?
How about the PARENT makes sure their child has what they need?