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Jilly_in_VA

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 11:15 AM Thursday

Indiana students suffer second-degree burns after dance practice punishment [View all]

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.

It happened on Sept. 18 when the temperature was almost 90 degrees.

"I really just want to know what made you think that that was OK, on the 86-degree, whatever degree weather, day that it was OK to have them doing bear crawls on an asphalt track when it had to be at least over 100 degrees on the track," Trinity's mother, Stacey, said.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/travis-peagler-cheerleading-bear-crawls-burns-2nd-degree-majorettes-punishment-track/507-15360ef9-1b12-400a-8079-ec88baee40a1

This story is absolutely horrific. The father of the girl in the story is a veteran of the 82nd Airborne and said his training was never anything like this. This coach should be fired and arrested!

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This headline kept getting worse and more unexpected as I read left-to-right Prairie Gates Thursday #1
Yes, we have dance teams. BluesRunTheGame Thursday #10
Haaa! Prairie Gates Thursday #21
Really? RecoveringJournalist Thursday #16
Some of the radial right wing religious nut jobs in blood red states Dr. T Thursday #29
Majorettes. 58Sunliner Thursday #31
Horrible. Fire that coach. Ritabert Thursday #2
Fire the coach. Dawson Leery Thursday #3
You test the pavement with your own hand before taking your DOG for a walk for crying out loud underpants Thursday #4
We say "W-thing".... Bettie Thursday #17
We used to have a dog that learned to spell, pig latin and to spell backwards. We gave up. appleannie1 Thursday #23
They'll figure it out leftstreet Thursday #25
Our dogs know the signs of an impending walk. yellowcanine Thursday #36
Hi Coach...Guess what you're gonna be doing today? MotherFu.......!! chouchou Thursday #5
so many of us have completely lost our minds. stopdiggin Thursday #6
Arrest that coach. That's child abuse, straight-up. NT Happy Hoosier Thursday #7
Also assault. yellowcanine Thursday #37
Indiana needs to attract better teachers by upping Emile Thursday #8
WTF is wrong with people? n/t SickOfTheOnePct Thursday #9
That is insane PatSeg Thursday #11
It sounds like that scene from "Dazed and Confused" but not as lighthearted. harumph Thursday #12
One of the girls was still hospitalized a week later due to heat exhaustion and 2nd degree burns. chowder66 Thursday #13
School is weird, the teachers can be weird, coaches can go berzerk. twodogsbarking Thursday #14
The parents need to file criminal charges dlk Thursday #15
The temperature of a brown colored Trex decking exposed to sunlight at 44 degrees north latitude is over 150 degrees. waterwatcher123 Thursday #18
Eastern burbs of Indy. maxsolomon Thursday #19
Plus school just started catchnrelease Thursday #22
My sister's Indiana HS (Madison Co.) starts August 6th. maxsolomon Thursday #28
That's really early! catchnrelease Thursday #35
Jane Pauley was a graduate of Warren Central. BluesRunTheGame Thursday #20
If it was my daughter, I would file charges of assault against the coach. appleannie1 Thursday #24
At the very least. niyad Thursday #27
"forced to do extra practice because of grades"??? What the FUCK kind niyad Thursday #26
That is sadistic torture/abuse. 58Sunliner Thursday #30
If this was my daughter, I'd have a "counseling session" with the coach. rsdsharp Thursday #32
The dance coach thought this would mwmisses4289 Thursday #33
11th grade PE coach made us do them every class Ponietz Thursday #34
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