In a bizarre incident, a teacher told a 14-year-old student ‘control her period” when she asked to go to the toilet.
Maisie-Rae Adams, a student of Rednock School in Dursley, UK, suffered an ‘accident’ and asked to use the facilities but was left ‘humiliated and embarrassed’ when she was told to remain in the classroom. The student says she grabbed a sanitary pad from her bag and walked out of the room anyway.
However, when she returned, her bag had been removed and she was told she couldn’t come back to the lesson.
According to the Daily Mail, she said, “The class seemed to be in shock at what happened. I grabbed my pad and went to the toilet. When I tried to come back into the classroom the teacher told me that my bag was in another room and I could not go back to class.”
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Maisie also said that this was not the first time as she had already been given three detentions for asking to go to the toilet while on her period at her school. Her 36-year-old mother, Kelly Adams told the Daily Mail, “When Maisie told me about it I felt so angry that I could cry. Maisie felt humiliated and embarrassed and it is horrible what happened to her. She should never have had a detention for needing to go to the toilet during her period.”
However, the head teacher of the school, David Alexander said that the school does allow students bathroom breaks if they are on periods.
