Or is this PE teacher unreasonable about periods

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DD(15) is doing GCSE PE. Part of this involves 'personal survival' which takes place in local swimming pool.

The school obv need to book this, can't just turn up, but DD queried what would happen if some of the girls had their period at the time. PE teacher (female) replied that they'd obviously have to use a tampon, they can't miss it, can't arrange another day. A few girls told her they didn't use/get on with tampons and she got annoyed saying they'd have to get on with it on the day as no other option.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer: Tgen I can't see why this is causing an issue for the OP's child? Obviously if swimming is optional then fantastico, hakuna matata

The misogyny on this thread, from other women no less, is thoroughly depressing

As long as the thread has made you laugh Trifle

LiviaDrusillaAugusta: Huh? Don't be so defensive, I wasn't even talking to you!

We weren't taught body autonomy when I was a child - even so I realised what happened was wrong. But can people not see the difference between telling people, for example, that they have to wear a particular colour costume and that they have to put something inside them?

That's funny because you addressed me... sorry my mistake

LiviaDrusillaAugusta: Not laughing, I didn't.

to be fair trifle

I dont think it was the ops daughter with the issue

Sorry

I think she was annoyed on behalf of the other girls

Putsomepeasonit: If there is a sensible workaround then there is no reason. But if their decision not to use tampons is making things unworkable, it is reasonable for there to be a compromise where of course no-one demands they use tampons, but they aren't making additional work for other students or staff.

If someone can't or won't use a tampon, they shouldn't have to miss out on a subject they want to do. Imagine suggesting to someone with another type of physical need that they have to choose another subject because they'll make more work for people.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer: Got you. Well, for me the answer is don't choose swimming if you have this particular problem. Do something else. What other solution is there that doesn't involve teachers ordering kids to use tampons? As a teacher I wouldn't tell a child where they needed to insert a foreign object But equally if they need to do certain activities to get through the course, I would be pissed off if I had to constantly reschedule those activities.

I can't work out how on earth this doesn't come under sex discrimination legislation...

Putsomepeasonit: It isn't the same as a registered disability or SN. Staff can't reschedule swimming lessons for every girl on her period. Be serious.

Rescheduling or not is one issue - and of course is horrendously inconvenient.

But some posters HAVE suggested that the girls should just suck it up and use a tampon etc. That's the bit that has bothered me and other posters

Btw anyone notice that the OP popped on briefly and has fucked off again?

I didn't say it was the same as a registered disability or SN. I said it was a physical need. Not wanting to insert something or not being able to insert something into their vagina should not dictate what subject that can or can't do. A physical need that might impact someone's learning shouldn't affect their access to courses based on the level of work it creates.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta: And pub have a point. No-one should be told it forced to use tampons. But they may have to accept some limitations of they can't, is all I am saying.

*they

Putsomepeasonit: Well sadly it may well do.

None of my dds got on with tampons when young teens.
I wrote a note each time. One dd has a period every 3 weeks. I actually had a message from the pe teacher querying it.
Fgs.

Karlakitten we don't need to get a grip, but you might want to get some empathy

Can't reschedule swimming lessons for every girl on her period
They dont need to reschedule anything.
Half the population is female and they pretty much all have a monthly menstural bleed from menarch to menopause. It should be no surprise to the school that teenage girls whill mensturate and a number of them unable to use internal sanpro.
2 sessions 2 weeks apart is simply not that difficult unless you want it to be. It is a reasnable adjustment for a phenomenon over which the girls have no control.
anything less is sexist.

pampered princesses

Wow.

I am as far from being pampered as you will find.

Still if this thread has taught us anything is that men are the least of our worries when it comes to a cuntish attitude to women....