100PercentFedUp.com By Danielle
A tampon dispenser inside the boys bathroom at a Connecticut high school was torn down ’20 minutes’ after installation.
School officials placed the dispenser in the bathroom on January 24th due to an upcoming state law that requires certain public schools to have menstrual products in restrooms of both genders.
Brookfield High School Principal Marc Balanda called it an “egregious instance of vandalism and destruction of property.”
New state-mandated tampon dispenser in CT high school boys bathroom ripped down in 20 minutes https://t.co/D7IgpdefAa pic.twitter.com/91jPUXCwQ7
— New York Post (@nypost) February 1, 2024
“A dispenser with menstrual products was installed in the boys bathroom near the (main office),” Balanda said in an email obtained by CT Insider.
“The installation was completed at 9:30 (a.m.). By 9:52 (a.m.), tampons were on the floor, the newly installed distribution box was ripped off the wall along with the masonry anchors, and the distribution box itself was destroyed,” the email continued.
CT Insider reports:
The law, which goes into effect Sept. 1, requires public schools serving students in grades 3 through 12 to “install coin-free dispensers or otherwise provide free access to a selection of menstrual products in all women’s restrooms, any all-gender restrooms (and) one men’s restroom per school.”
In the email, Balanda said that while the law refers to a men’s bathroom, the student’s acts of vandalism and destruction of property “were the work of immature boys, not men.”
The school will reinstall the dispenser box in a boy’s bathroom, Balanda said in the email…
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