Girl sat in blood soaked clothes after being told she couldnt go to the toilet and would require a £15 toilet pass.

[HelenaDove]

metro.co.uk/2018/09/27/girl-sat-in-blood-soaked-clothes-after-teacher-said-she-couldnt-go-to-the-toilet-7984731/

FFS! What is wrong with some people And a £15 toilet pass. Misogyny and sex discrimination.

Two staff members also asked her what action the doctor was going to take to lighten her doctors flow.

Im absolutely furious reading this Im sorry if there already is a thread. I couldnt see one.

I had horrendous periods when I was at school. My mum told my teacher who seemed sympathetic but then announced in class that I had to miss PE because I couldn't cope with my periods. I then started missing school for 3 days when I had my period my teacher cottoned onto what was happening so I then had to miss other days so it wasn't obvious I was on my period. My attendance record was horrendous and I completely lost interest in school and failed my GCSEs.

@kirstybabe

Teachers can tell if it’s a true emergency? Really?

Then explain this - my 11 year old who was 6 at the time asked the teacher if she could go to the toilet a few times between break and lunch and was told no and ended up wetting herself. Could she tell it was a real emergency? But that teacher heard me alright!

It’s a fucking joke that you don’t let kids go tot the toilet. Especially asking for 2 hours, the little kid was obviously desperate. You sound like a cow who bullies young children.

As an ex teacher I've never understood this not allowing kids to go to the toilet ...for whatever reason.
Even if it is to skive...rather they leave than disrupt the class.
In this case the girl had a legitimate rule and was NOT skiving...bonkers and disgusting.

Let kids go to the toilet few.

Geez I've never heard of a girl being required to bring a medical certificate for having her period.

Other than one girl in school who had unusually high absences due to an abnormally heavy, painful period. It was to excuse her absences though...not certify she's menstruating.

It's appalling that they asked the mother to get a doctor to do something to lighten her daughter's flow.

Ffs even!!

Period shaming is not a "first world problem"; it is widely acknowledged to be one of the barriers in place in developing countries preventing girls from getting an education. To describe it as a "first world problem" simply exposes that poster as so fucking stupid they shouldn't be let out in public unaccompanied by a responsible adult.

That poor girl. How can some teachers be so utterly shite?

It's a joke that they stop any child from using the toilet full stop. I must wee about 15 times a day - I hate it and I'd like to see them try to stop me walking out of lesson to use the loo!!

Imo going to the toilet is a human right...and not one that schools recognise.
Probably for fear of skiving...but if they could employ people to patrol toilets in schools they could help distressed girls, stop smoking and toilet vandalism and make sure people weren't skiving....
I'd love to see a caring flunky in a school loo hating out sanitary pads, lollies and scented wipes...rather like the ones in night clubs!! ( drifts off to cloud Cookoo land!)

Handing out..typos agggrrr!

Agree that it's disgusting behaviour by the school.

I'm not sure though why the mum went to the media with the story? Hasn't that poor girl had enough to contend with without everyone knowing what happened to her?

@kirstybabe well sometimes I wee 2-3 times every couple hours especially if I am drinking the recommended 2 litres per day. So I would struggle waiting for a 2 hour break! And I'm a 23 year old girl with no health problems!

I'd be more interested in this story were it from something other than a tabloid, offering more than a one-sided account.

KirstyBabe unless a girl tells me she is on her period I refuse.

So a girl has to announce in front of a class that she has her period. you don't see that this is a problem?

I am sure the teacher in question feels awful.

AS well she should but that is nowhere near enough she needs to recognise her mistake and prevent it from happening again.

Do you seriously expect a child to announce in front of all their peers that they have their period, or they might have diarrhoea? Can you seriously not understand why that's ridiculous?

I don’t see what this has to do with poverty, OP.

I’ve never taught in a school with toilet passes, and would always use common sense.

As this girl gets older, she will get into a routine of changing her pad at break/lunch.

I know this beside the point but is no one else gobsmacked that this school allows smoking on the premises? Teachers standing around outside smoking WTF???!!

Fucking disgusting.

As this girl gets older, she will get into a routine of changing her pad at break/lunch.

You must be quite lucky if you can get away with just changing your pads at certain times. Some of us, including many young girls flood at any time and simply can't wait for breaks.

It has a lot to do with poverty. Disposable sanpro is not trivial in terms of cost and it is wise to have extra changes of underwear as well. Not to mention some parents who won't supply their daughters with it or educate them with what to do. I wonder how different it would be if men and boys regularly risk hemorraging through their clothes. I am always polite though it a man questions it - I ask how they manage THEIR menstuation?

It is one of the main barriers blocking girls from education in the developing word not to mention all the superstitions and bad practises surrounding mensturation and that period poverty is a thing in the UK and Europe as well.

This is what it was like for me when I was at school in the 1960's. I was at a grammar school in SE London, and suffered badly with menstrual cramps. I could go to the school nurse and in the sick bay there was a bed. The nurse would make a hot water bottle, give me pain killers and I would get in bed until the pain eased enough for me to be able to go back to class. If it didn't ease I could stay where I was until home time.
I have no way, of course, of knowing what it was like in other schools.

Obviously I wouldn't expect every school to have a bed and a full time nurse, but it just shows how attitudes were more enlightened nearly 60 years ago. You'd think the reverse would be true.

Generally speaking boys don’t have unexpected flooding from a period though.