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Meads Mill students form Lady Legends in Training club; plan bake sale and product drive for feminine supplies
Summary
Students at Meads Mill described LLIT (Lady Legends in Training), a girls empowerment club inspired by a women's summit. The club raised $189 in a bake sale and plans a feminine/product drive to stock bathroom supplies after board members and students raised concerns that existing dispensers were not meeting needs.
Students and staff at Meads Mill briefed the Northville Public Schools Board of Education on a new girls empowerment group called LLIT (Lady Legends in Training), which the students formed after attending a women's summit in Grand Rapids.
Students described club activities this year including a bake sale that raised $189, positive messaging on bathroom mirrors and stalls, weekly meetings and outreach to younger grades. The bake-sale proceeds are earmarked to buy teen-sized feminine products and to stock bathroom supplies; students also plan to recruit new members through seminar classes and to place stickers with inspirational phrases on stall exteriors.
Students described the summit as a place to practice ‘taking up space’ and building confidence. Student presenters said the club’s mirror messages and events lift classmates’ moods and provide peer support during middle school transitions. “It made me feel really important,” one student said of the messages in bathroom stalls.
During the board discussion, trustees and administrators raised an operational concern: currently installed period-product dispensers across district restrooms were described by students and board members as “not usable” for the students’ needs. School leaders said they were working with central office on solutions and that the LLIT group plans a feminine products drive using bake-sale funds and future fundraising. Board members asked staff for follow-up and clarity on which products and stocking mechanisms would meet students’ needs.
No formal vote was requested. Board members commended the student initiative and asked the administration to return with options for stocking appropriate feminine products and for continued coordination with student leaders.
