Indiana HS's Purse Ban Leaves Everyone At A Loss For Words

By Margaret Lyons in News on Sep 10, 2008 8:32PM

One or two words in particular. A recent CBS2 article about an Indiana high school's ban on purses and backpacks is basically an exercise in avoiding the words "tampon" or "maxi pad." Let's see....

• "Female students are upset about the changes."

• "Kathryn Griffin has to return to her locker to get things she normally keeps in her bag, including personal hygiene items.

  'We have that time of the month, so you know we need our purses,' Griffin said.

  With purses, they say they don't have the embarrassment of disclosing that information."

• "'Those types of organizational skills will transfer when she goes to college. Very important,' said Kim's mother, Denene Reppa. 'And then she can keep her other things in there as well that kind of relate to her being a female.'"

What kinds of things might those be?

The ban on bags, designed to prevent students from carrying guns or drugs into class, has been in place for three years but had apparently gone unenforced. Tampon tampon tampon tampon tampon. [CBS 2]