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Student representative urges better menstrual-product supplies and clearer counseling resources
Summary
A student representative told the Birmingham Community Charter High District board that several campus pad and tampon dispensers and some bathrooms have been empty, and asked the district to add counseling-center information and resource locations to the school website or map.
A student representative reported on Welcome Week activities and raised access concerns for female students, saying that “a lot of female students have complained that their pad and tampon dispensers and some of the bathrooms have been empty for a good amount of time.” The representative asked the district to assign someone to check dispensers regularly and to consider adding counseling-center information to the school’s online map so students can more easily find mental-health services.
The board did not take immediate action during the report but acknowledged the concern and asked staff to follow up. The student also suggested offering clearer online directions to counseling services and said the addition should go beyond classroom location information currently on the website.
