Indiana students suffer second-degree burns after dance practice punishment

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Indiana students suffer second-degree burns after dance practice punishment

The father of one girl says it could take six months for her burns to heal after she was made to bear crawl across the scorching hot track.

Author: Mike Potter, Logan Gay
Published: 7:44 AM EDT September 25, 2025
Updated: 7:58 AM EDT September 25, 2025

INDIANAPOLIS — Warren Central High School parents are upset after they said multiple girls on the school's majorette team suffered burns and serious blisters after being forced to do bear crawls on the track in the heat.

"She was loving the first few weeks of high school, and now she's not," parent Travis Peagler said.

Peagler said he couldn't believe his eyes last week when he picked his 14-year-old daughter, Trinity, up from Warren Central High School and looked down and saw her hands burned and blistered. She told him she was forced to do bear crawls across the scorching hot track during majorette practice. She said she was told to do extra due to her grades.

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Credit: Travis Peagler
These injuries were reportedly suffered after a teen girl was forced to do bear crawls at Warren Central High School.

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[Ilsa]

1. I hope whoever told them to do it is fired.

And I hope the girls will next time tell the instructor "No, that could lead to burns, infection, and amputations. Find another punishment that doesn't physically torture or risk our lives." Yeah, I know, they have to do what the teacher says or they will be expelled.

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2. These coaches need to be fired

I have no doubt that these assholes and the school will be sued

[exboyfil]

3. Endangering the welfare?

Surely there is a law covering this?