Chicago Charter School Period Leaks Dress Code
Chicago Charter School Tells Girls Who Bleed Through Pants During Menstruation They Can’t Tie Sweatshirts Around Their Waists
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Another day, another attack against our girls.
This time it’s a Chicago charter school whosed dress code policy denies its female students who have period leaks from wrapping shirts around their waists to avoid embarrassment.
According to NPR Illinois, the Noble Network of Charter Schools, which has has 18 campuses that serve 12,000 students in the city, has restricted the amount of time students can use the bathroom, which is leading to period leaks. In addition, their dress code policy doesn’t allow students who stain their clothes to cover them up.
“We have [bathroom] escorts, and they rarely come so we end up walking out [of class] and that gets us in trouble,” an anonymous student texted an NPR reporter.
“But who wants to walk around knowing there’s blood on them? It can still stain the seats. They just need to be more understanding.”
Even worse, the Huff Post noted “that students receive automatic detention after four demerits in a two-week period and are required to take a “character development” course after 13 such detentions.”
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One former teacher told NPR Illinois that the schools’ policies are “dehumanizing.”
The Noble president Constance Jones Brewer wrote that unspecified parts of the NPR story were “exaggerated or plainly false.”
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Chicago Charter School Tells Girls Who Bleed Through Pants During Menstruation They Can’t Tie Sweatshirts Around Their Waists was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
