A family is pushing for answers after a traumatizing moment at Yelm Middle School. A student claims she got her period in her classroom, but wasn’t allowed to use the restroom as it bled through her clothes.
“I was like, ‘But I need to go to the bathroom. I’m on my period. I need to go change my pad,’” said 13-year-old Byllie Eighinger-Lemm. “I was straight up with her, and then she was like, ‘Go sit down.’”
Eighinger-Lemm started texting her father, who told her she should get up and go to the bathroom anyway…