Every weekday at a middle school near Atlanta, a half-dozen or so students visit the school nurse to get sanitary pads.
Their reasons vary: Their mothers don’t provide them; they don’t have the money; they forgot to bring them; their friends need them.
“It’s every issue that can be named,” said Linda Espinosa, a nurse at Freedom Middle School in Dekalb County, a school where all students receive free or subsidized meals.
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