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Teen Disciplined For Carrying Purse Filled With Feminine Products[W: 246]

Which side is overreacting?

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If my school banned purses, nobody at my school would be able to even.
 
radcen said:
One side is overreacting. Which side?
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I would say the school. That is ridiculous. :roll: Banning purses? What about backpacks? How stupid.
 
radcen said:
One side is overreacting. Which side?
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OMG. Let me get 'hold of that decision-maker. Absolutely ridiculous. What's a young girl supposed to do with her tampons, stick them up her nose, for God's sake??

This stupid idiots are teaching our kids, folks.
 
MaggieD said:
Even what?
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I don't know. All I know is that they wouldn't be able to even. They're often too be busy being basic with their uggs and their starbucks frappe.
 
I understand why the school would ban purses/backpacks... but frankly I don't agree with it. If kids are abusing school time by texting, carrying drugs, etc., then bust the students who are breaking the rules. Banning all purses/backpacks makes it nearly impossible to carry necessities like books, notebooks, pencils, etc., to class, and how about kids who carry house/car keys, necessary prescription meds and inhalers, sanitary supplies, etc.? I mean what girl wants to go to class carrying a clutch purse that announces to all her friends that she's on her period??

Dumb school is dumb.
 
MaggieD said:
OMG. Let me get 'hold of that decision-maker. Absolutely ridiculous. What's a young girl supposed to do with her tampons, stick them up her nose, for God's sake??

This stupid idiots are teaching our kids, folks.
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Well, people usually stick them somewhere but it's not up their noses. :mrgreen:
 
Galesburg is typical of larger towns in "out-state" Illinois with about a thousand teenagers, many pushing the envelope right up to suspension.
Unless you get the purses under their desks, you will have a problem, period.
Then boys will mess with their purses as boys will do.

As well, teenagers are magnificently adept at texting with phone on leg not looking.
When all else fails, they can always use the bathroom routine.
Too bad parents and concerned citizens can't watch these classes on hidden video to see how their little darlings behave .
 
This is stupid. I see their reasoning behind it, but something has to give. Women have to be able to carry "feminine products" in their purse. Good grief. Get a metal detector. Something.
 

It's not about that. That, we understand. Being a man, you have absolutely no idea what it's like, but you can't just walk in with a handful of tampons to math class like you would a handful of Twizzlers. That is unnecessarily humiliating children, and I don't see this standing for long. The right lawyer would have this thrown out in less than a week.
 
well the answer is simple, we need TSA at all schools groping all the young girls and boys!

We all need to give up our rights because of al CIAda.
 
While rarely, students use the excuse of items for illegitimate purposes, administration must absolutely keep in mind unreasonable and/or discriminatory policies and how they impact populations. In this regard, I would have expected it to be high on the list of "things to be aware of" as roughly half of their student body will be affected by the policy.
 
NIMBY said:
As well, teenagers are magnificently adept at texting with phone on leg not looking.
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We can walk around in our classrooms, you know.

When all else fails, they can always use the bathroom routine.
Too bad parents and concerned citizens can't watch these classes on hidden video to see how their little darlings behave .
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If it's a matter of frequency and length, it's not unreasonable if a teacher may get suspicious. However, when this is a biological function for that student (let alone a regularly-expected function for a female for decades), that need supersedes any somewhat paranoid thoughts about technology.

There will be cracks in the system. That goes with the territory.
 

Let the rainbow people cry about it and it will be changed in days!
 
radcen said:
One side is overreacting. Which side?
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The school's policy is ridiculous. The girls can't have purses but book bags are ok? Draconian regulation only punishes everyone for the sins of the guilty.

Oh and the parallels to gun control are obvious. :mrgreen:
 
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She's not going to be using the tampons in class, if you're talking of humiliation.
She knows the way to her locker before going to the bathroom, a bathroom that fiddy says she should be able to go to.
It's to the point where you can't say no to the bathroom and you have constant disruptions and prearranged meetings.

This is late April and the kids have been pulling this crap all year.
Pray for them the next month or so with drunk Prom season and Graduation parties.
Sure glad I'm retired .
 
Conservative Indiana schools have gone to fingerprints for lunches because kids forget their lunch cards and cause long back-ups.
Not all students were getting through the lines.

Galesburg is also a conservative community.
The Principal said it was not one incident if you bothered to read the link.
The girl knew the rule and chose to break it.
This is their moment of fame and was no doubt prearranged, like so many of their vacations all year.

Cons seem to want schools to teach discipline until they don't, typical of what I saw for over three decades .
X Factor said:
The school's policy is ridiculous. The girls can't have purses but book bags are ok? Draconian regulation only punishes everyone for the sins of the guilty.

Oh and the parallels to gun control are obvious. :mrgreen:
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NIMBY said:
She knows the way to her locker before going to the bathroom, a bathroom that fiddy says she should be able to go to.
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You don't want to have a student walking to their locker to retrieve necessary hygienic supplies in a pretty important moment. It takes a great deal of time to do so and may cause unnecessary accidents. It may take a few minutes to get to the locker, then to open it up, remove items, then take even more time to find a restroom nearby. Then they have to get to the class they are missing. That is completely absurd and merely exacerbates the problem you identify: not being in the classroom for coursework. I suspect it would take up a great deal of that class period, wouldn't you agree?

They don't exactly get to decide when the need should occur, now do they?

It's to the point where you can't say no to the bathroom and you have constant disruptions and prearranged meetings.
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If it's a woman's issue, teachers have to abide by it. No exceptions.
 
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It is absolutely NOT rare that this happens in high schools like Galesburg.
They do the best they can with all the public students they are forced to deal with, not like charters or privates.
They have to take all the apples, not just the good ones.
Female teachers are now catching cell phones inside of upper female clothing.
Try dealing with that in a large "normal" High school .
 

Stop talking about cellphones.
 
Once you make an exception to a rule based on a litany of problems, you have undercut the entire discipline situation.
And the kids know it.
Girls didn't have these problems when I taught.
That's because they didn't disobey texting rules with purses on their desks.
So much for a society that wants kids to be taught discipline .
 
Cellphones are the reason for the rule.
Why would anyone stop talking about the root cause of the problem.

Don't ever tell me to stop talking about anything ever again.
What would you know about the problems THESE teachers are dealing with ?
Fiddytree said:
Stop talking about cellphones.
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NIMBY said:
Once you make an exception to a rule based on a litany of problems, you have undercut the entire discipline situation.
And the kids know it.
Girls didn't have these problems when I taught.
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Girls didn't have periods when you were teaching?

That's because they didn't disobey texting rules with purses on their desks.
So much for a society that wants kids to be taught discipline .
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I despise cellphones in the classroom. I even think Google did a disservice to education by doing two-factor authentication for all mass Google account sign-ups for Google Docs. That being said, when you eliminate purses, especially with a student that carried feminine hygiene products, you have a huge problem on your hands, not relating to technology in the classroom.
 
The biological and sanitary needs of students should outweigh this rule. If it were my daughter, I'd be making an issue of it too. Go Mom!
 
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