Tri-Valley Central School:  Only if you're on your period  
Sunday, September 30th, 2007

At Tri-Valley Central School in New York City, kids were outraged and started wearing tampons hanging out of their pockets, on their clothes, and as purse strings in protest of the "only when you're on your period" rule.  The rule was being enforced by security personnel at the high school (okay, my high school never had security personnel, when did this start going on).  The real rule at Tri-Valley is that students can't carry bags, but the exception is girls - but only you-know-when.

So girls who carried purses actually were being asked by security guys, "Do you have your period?"  Girls reported being mortified at the question, and this month, the little Sullivan County school has been full of teens with maxi pads stuck to their shirts and red dots pinned to their chests.

Therefore everyone is in uproar, on and on.  The bag rule is for two reasons:  they don't want the kids to hurt their backs with heavy backpacks (so what are they supposed to do, strap the books onto their backs with tampon strings?), and because of security concerns about concealed weapons.

I don't know, would a metal detector not solve this?

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