Idaho Republicans Deny Girls Free Tampons in School

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Wow.
I went to high school in the 70s, yes it was a very different time, the school had tampon and sanitary napkin machines in all the girl's restrooms and they were free.
Some in Idaho tried to have the same thing my state has had for as long as I can remember but the republicans said NO!
School administration and politicians back in the 70s knew girls had to go home if there were no products at the school, so the products were there. We didn't miss class, we didn't miss a day of school.
Yet the republicans in Idaho can't see this. Even TEN republican women voted against it. Wow. I'm just shocked by this.

MSN

Same here, Class of 1974 and as I remember it I think tampons were a dime, and then later they became free.
That was Montgomery County, Maryland.
Can't the skinflints in Idaho at least subsidize things so that tampons are only ten cents or a quarter?
No, of course not...they can't trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die, right?

 

[Nickyjo]

Here is the bill text:

https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/H0313.pdf

It appears all these years, Idaho has been doing fine without providing free tampons.

Damn liberals, Wanting everything for free. Free isn't free though. Tax payers pay for it. I think we are becoming a very pathetic society. Demanding others pay for things.

“No More Free Tampons in School” just might fly as a campaign slogan in Idaho. But wouldn’t be a good hill to die on in most other places. Again, why not have people use paper towels or the morning newspaper for TP? Why burden the state?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

“No More Free Tampons in School” just might fly as a campaign slogan in Idaho. But wouldn’t be a good hill to die on in most other places. Again, why not have people use paper towels or the morning newspaper for TP? Why burden the state?

I think Idaho Republicans really want the Walk of Shame for all "unclean women".

 

[americanwoman]

And one reason that it was likely difficult to get was because when girls didn't have a tampon/pad they tend to use what is available and absorbent, large amounts of toilet paper.

Which is why they should be free and fully available at the school office, with the nurse, or some other type of dispensing machine with tokens provided.

 

[Davin]

Where I come from, the real live women manage to handle this situation without the idiot leftist saviors you worship. Apparently...sadly...tragically...apparently where YOU come from the women are too ****ing stupid to figure that out without someone taking care of them. Or maybe you just THINK they are too ****ing stupid to figure it out and you have to save them.

Where is it exactly you are from?

First of all, if you had ever even been with a woman, you would know there are times when they forget their tampons or their period may be a little early and they need it.

Don’t worry, when you go through puberty yourself they will teach you that in grade school.

 

[reflechissez]

I made what up that "in my school snitches got stitches"?

Think what you want but if you think a poorly funded school in the city with a large percentage of the school body being rival gang members isn't like that, so be it.

I wouldn't rat on someone stealing tampons. Even now. They must need them so they can have them and I am not getting involved.

You said earlier that your school didn't provide tampons. Now you're saying that girls stole them? Pick a lane.

 

[roguenuke]

Which is why they should be free and fully available at the school office, with the nurse, or some other type of dispensing machine with tokens provided.

Or just leave them open in schools and you can monitor if they start to go missing who went in there and came out with those. Or at least allow teachers to just provide "tokens" as needed. It shouldn't be that hard.

 

[americanwoman]

You said earlier that your school didn't provide tampons. Now you're saying that girls stole them? Pick a lane.

Yes, they did not provide tampons.

I am not saying if girls stole them before nor did I say they were provided at school just that I wouldn't rat on someone stealing tampons, even to this day, I would not rat on them. So to be clear if my school had provided tampons and I saw someone steal them I would not have ratted on them.

 

[reflechissez]

Yes, they did not provide tampons.

I am not saying if girls stole them before nor did I say they were provided at school just that I wouldn't rat on someone stealing tampons, even to this day, I would not rat on them. So to be clear if my school had provided tampons and I saw someone steal them I would not have ratted on them.

Um...ok

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Which is why they should be free and fully available at the school office, with the nurse, or some other type of dispensing machine with tokens provided.

Yeah, like I said, at least have them for a goddamn dime.

 

[ClaraD]

They aren’t free and the disagreement seems to be over who should be on the hook for paying for them. The taxpayers writ large or the parents.

Well we pay for education...I would think that we want the kids to stay in school and get educated...not have to run home to get a kotex or tampon.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Or just leave them open in schools and you can monitor if they start to go missing who went in there and came out with those. Or at least allow teachers to just provide "tokens" as needed. It shouldn't be that hard.

I wouldn't want my very shy daughter having to go up and whisper to some teacher "I have my period"...she should just be able to discreetly go the restroom, turn the handle and get a goddamn tampon and no one is the wiser.

 

[ClaraD]

Its a miracle that young women have managed to make it to 2023 without being provided free tampons. How in the WORLD has that even been possible?????????

I was 11 when I got my first cycle....our nurse had them for free...that was 1982.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

Nobody cares if your middle school has them or not. That is not what is being discussed. We are talking about public schools in Idaho. That's what is in the OP.

Do you know if middle schools in Idaho have dispensers? I don't, so when I made my comment, I made it based on the experience I DO have, which is middle schools where I live. I even made the mea culpa because it was presumptuous to assume it was the same everywhere.

It was you understanding why Vance refers to children as women. Your words "to be fair, 12 year olds aren't in high school". So you think high school girls are women? Or did you just feel the need to defend the ignorant words of Vance?

If the word women never showed up in either of your posts, and you had brought up 12 year olds, my point would still have been correct ( or at least understandable) based on the information I had when I made it. The comment had absolutely NOTHING to do with the word women and everything to do with 12 year olds NOT being in high school. As 12 year olds aren't in high school AND my experience is that middle schools here don't have dispensers, my comment was purely based on high schools here being the only schools with said dispensers. If that isn't how it is everywhere else, fine, my bad.

12 year old girls need tampons too. That isn't confusing to anyone.

Care to point to where I ever said they didnt? Ill wait.

Calling school aged children "women" is confusing to anyone with a working brain. I would appreciate you owning your words.

I DID own my words. What I don't own is your lack of reading comprehension. Nowhere in my comment can anyone with, as you put it, a working brain, mistake my comment for support for calling school aged girls women. My use of "to be fair" was based on my experience that high schools are the only schools with the dispensers...and that 12 year olds wouldn't be attending said schools, so the comment seemed just a bit off to me. That's it.

You defended his words. I'm repulsed by his words.

I didn't defend his use of the word women, for the umpteenth time. I commented on 12 year olds NOT being in high school. Nothing more, nothing less. I even said as much in the very next post. Everything I have said since ALSO proves as much.

Get off your high horse.

 

[roguenuke]

I wouldn't want my very shy daughter having to go up and whisper to some teacher "I have my period"...she should just be able to discreetly go the restroom, turn the handle and get a goddamn tampon and no one is the wiser.

I agree with that. But I'm not against compromise.

 

[ClaraD]

What about theft? I'll bet there are sound reasons for this. If the schools are going though too many, with the limited funds available, what are they to do?

Put a vending machine in for control, or have the nurse issue them.

Libersls are incapable of controlling the spending of other people's money. Liberal policies are dooming this nation.

since they are usually kept in the office or the nurse's station it is rare that theft would happen. Toilet paper is in every stall. Should we eliminate bathrooms and toilet paper?

 

[ClaraD]

And you think feminine hygiene products are the same as toilet paper?

yes....they are a hygiene product. One is to wipe yourself and the other is so you do not bleed everywhere.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Has anyone else ever gotten sick and died because a girl bled through her pants?

Probably.

Being exposed to blood born pathogens is a very real thing. In our schools all staff have to go through annual safety training for dealing with bodily fluids (including blood) to prevent the transmission of pathogens.

So "has anyone else ever..." is a pretty wide open question to which that answer is "Yes". At least one person, somewhere, sometime, in the history of this country has died to exposure to blood borne pathogens transmitted in such a away. Is it very many? Probably not. Is it at least 1? Probably.

WW

 

[ClaraD]

A girl will not grab a weeks supply of toilet paper to take home for use, but if the family has little money, a girl can easily put a weeks supply of tampons in her purse.

Without an inventory use control in place, the schools will most certainly spend far more than expected to.

I say put a coin operated vending machine in, or have the school nurse issue them out. To simply have uncontrolled free access to them enables high volume theft.

If she is poor and needs them I do not give a damn.

 

[ClaraD]

It’s unbelievable that this hast to be explained to an adult, but tampons are just a nice-to-have amenity. It may be embarrassing to bleed through your clothes, but the absence of a hygienic way to collect and dispose of human feces can kill people. So you need to provide toilet paper unless you want an outbreak of E.Coli or Cholera.

blood borne pathogens are dangerous. If she has HIV do you still feel the same?

 

[Cope]

Why would you raise rent $500 when the cost to property owners is $0.50 a year?

Hassle

 

[Michael Cole]

It appears thievery hasn't been a problem in Ann Arbor. Free tampons and pads are required by law in all public restrooms.

How to report a violation of Ann Arbor’s new tampon law

The law that took effect Jan. 1 requires tampons and pads to be freely available in all public restrooms

www.mlive.com

There are 24 restrooms in city hall from the basement to floor six, including men’s, women’s and unisex restrooms, and all 24 have menstrual products now, Reiser said.

There are baskets of supplies in the city hall restrooms and the city has not experienced any pilfering problems, Reiser said.

All public restrooms in the city must comply (except religious institutions), and many have chosen to use baskets rather than spend $400 for a dispenser. Thievery is apparently not a concern.

A school is a little different, and there will always be some students who take more than they need. I'm sure the schools have this worked into the budget. What is not convincing is the assertion that stealing tampons is gonna become a thing, anywhere.

 

[Cope]

Oh no, sometimes parents need help or children forget or don't know when they will start their period? Who would have thought.

I'm not aghast at either scenario, but free in the bathroom with no oversight seems like a bad call.
Just admit that any taxes you add to pay for things (like this), you bear along with all other consumers the cost of those additional taxes. Supplier/Makers/Designers/Companies they don't eat those costs

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I agree with that. But I'm not against compromise.

Well if it's the money then fine, subsidize it partially so the tampons are a dime or a quarter, but MAKE them AVAILABLE in every restroom and in the nurse's office.
I don't think it's the cost when it comes to Republicans in Idaho...I really don't think a stack of quarters is what drives this.
I don't it's that at all, I think it's something much much worse.

 

[RobertU]

I didn't get my free tampons. Now, you will pay!