Alisa Nudar, a student, experienced a distressing moment during a math exam when she unexpectedly started her period with no access to menstrual products. Despite legal requirements for schools in New York City to provide free period products, Nudar found no supplies in the bathroom, delaying her exam time. This situation has led to a lawsuit by the nonprofit organization Period Law and a student against the Education Department, highlighting broader issues of access and discrimination against menstruating individuals in educational settings. The legal basis stems from a law enacted in 2016 mandating such provisions in schools.
I kept asking people who were coming in and they were, like, Oh, I'm so sorry, I don't have any, Nudar said. And already 10 minutes had passed.
Back then, in 2021, Nudar was a freshman at Bard High School Early College in New York City. And legally there should have been tampons and pads in the school bathroom.
Now a nonprofit organization called Period Law and an anonymous student are suing the Education Department for not providing those products in schools, a failure that... amounts to discrimination against menstruating people.
In 2016, New York City became the first jurisdiction in the country to pass a law mandating every school to be stocked with free period products.
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