This is pissing me off no end.
1. If you are a high school teacher, your job is to be a role model for teens, including teaching them to deal with adversity. Some of the teens are girls who are going to have period accidents at school. Life goes on. You don't teach them that if they have an embarrassing incident in public the way to deal with it is to refuse to return to school/work ever again - even if you have no way to support yourself, and even if you owe other people money. You teach them that everyone has embarrassing stuff happen, you sulk for a day, you find a way to laugh about it, and you get on with your life. Yes, people are going to laugh at you for a bit, so what? We have kids that go to school with speech impediments, skin breakouts, obesity, whatever ... is your advice to them to quit school and hide in their parents' basement and ask for handouts?
2. Same goes for aligning yourself to some Crohn's disease foundation. If your advice to other people with it is that they should consider themselves unable to hold down a job if they have one accident in public, you are the worst possible poster child for the foundation. Put on your big girl panties, even if they require a layer of depends underneath, and go deal with life, FFS.