‘The Question’
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- September
- 28
Add this story to the “Horrific/idiotic things that can occur in school” file: In Grahamsville, slightly upstate from here, a high school student was pulled out of class by a security guard who wanted to make sure no kids had backpacks or bags that students are banned from carrying during the school day. The girl apparently had a small purse with her that day.
The security guard was just doing his job, right? Perhaps. But what’s problematic was the question the guard asked the young lady: Whether or not she was menstruating. Yes, you read that right. Apparently, that’s the only reason why students at Tri-Valley High School are given a pass to have a bag with them during the day. Read it all for yourself here.
I can’t even begin to imagine how upset this girl was. I think if someone – and a man, no less – asked me that when I was 14, I would have fainted. And apparently, “The Question” is asked quite freqently. And it has upset so many students that girls – as well as boys, in support of their female friends – have taken to wearing tampons and sanitary napkins on their clothing in protest of this despicable question.
According to the news story, the school banned bags in the halls to prevent kids from being hurt by heavy bags and to avoid falls, as well as a concern about concealed weapons. Valid concerns, for sure.
But “The Question?” Hardly valid, I’d say. What do you think?
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on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 1:14 pm by Gayle T. Williams.
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What has the world come to when people feel it necessary to ask teenage girls a question like that? That’s a question that should be reserved for doctors, maybe parents, but I can’t imagine why the school should have to ask it.
This is just another example of the “death of common sense.” I don’t see why it’s necessary to prohibit bags at school in the first place. When I was in high school, we carried our books in bags, and nobody was ever harmed by it.
I’m usually reluctant to criticize measures that schools take to maintain order, since I think that maintenance of order in the school is critical to education, and we’ve done so much to tie the hands of the schools in this regard. But this seems totally ridiculous. Whatever problems are being caused by students with bags, there has to be a better way than this to handle them.
we have lost our freedom for the sake of mis-placed security.
Canada seeems like the place to be now.