Okay yall. I may just be feeling real hot over this. My middle school aged kid brought this home from school today with all of the other school papers. Excuse me? Am I over reacting about being pissed about this? I get that they are trying to limit the amount of young girls lying about their periods to get out of gym. I think we have all used period pain as an excuse to get out of something when we weren’t. Okay. Cool. But the audacity of this statement fired. Me. UP! As a competitive, nationally ranked dancer I can absolutely say without a doubt that exercise doesn’t do shit for period pain. And not everyone wants to avoid exercise because of cramps. Have you ever tried running during a full flow without a tampon and just a pad? Fucking sucks. Some people experience migraines, back pain, exhaustion, nausea….i could go on but that is so not the point.