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RecoveringJournalist

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16. Really?

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 12:10 PM

Sep 25

This is the road on which you choose to travel? Really? I'm an educated Indiana native and bleed smurf blue. Yes, Eva Braun's cousin twice removed may indeed be our governor. And yes, the state generally runs Soviet era red. But we're not all rednecks. Think before you post, please.

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Indiana students suffer second-degree burns after dance practice punishment [View all] Jilly_in_VA Sep 25 OP

This headline kept getting worse and more unexpected as I read left-to-right Prairie Gates Sep 25 #1

Yes, we have dance teams. BluesRunTheGame Sep 25 #10

Haaa! Prairie Gates Sep 25 #21

Really? RecoveringJournalist Sep 25 #16

Some of the radial right wing religious nut jobs in blood red states Dr. T Sep 25 #29

Majorettes. 58Sunliner Sep 25 #31

Horrible. Fire that coach. Ritabert Sep 25 #2

Fire the coach. Dawson Leery Sep 25 #3

You test the pavement with your own hand before taking your DOG for a walk for crying out loud underpants Sep 25 #4

We say "W-thing".... Bettie Sep 25 #17

We used to have a dog that learned to spell, pig latin and to spell backwards. We gave up. appleannie1 Sep 25 #23

They'll figure it out leftstreet Sep 25 #25

Our dogs know the signs of an impending walk. yellowcanine Sep 25 #36

Hi Coach...Guess what you're gonna be doing today? MotherFu.......!! chouchou Sep 25 #5

so many of us have completely lost our minds. stopdiggin Sep 25 #6

Arrest that coach. That's child abuse, straight-up. NT Happy Hoosier Sep 25 #7

Also assault. yellowcanine Sep 25 #37

Indiana needs to attract better teachers by upping Emile Sep 25 #8

WTF is wrong with people? n/t SickOfTheOnePct Sep 25 #9

That is insane PatSeg Sep 25 #11

It sounds like that scene from "Dazed and Confused" but not as lighthearted. harumph Sep 25 #12

One of the girls was still hospitalized a week later due to heat exhaustion and 2nd degree burns. chowder66 Sep 25 #13

School is weird, the teachers can be weird, coaches can go berzerk. twodogsbarking Sep 25 #14

The parents need to file criminal charges dlk Sep 25 #15

The temperature of a brown colored Trex decking exposed to sunlight at 44 degrees north latitude is over 150 degrees. waterwatcher123 Sep 25 #18

Eastern burbs of Indy. maxsolomon Sep 25 #19

Plus school just started catchnrelease Sep 25 #22

My sister's Indiana HS (Madison Co.) starts August 6th. maxsolomon Sep 25 #28

That's really early! catchnrelease Sep 25 #35

Jane Pauley was a graduate of Warren Central. BluesRunTheGame Sep 25 #20

If it was my daughter, I would file charges of assault against the coach. appleannie1 Sep 25 #24

At the very least. niyad Sep 25 #27

"forced to do extra practice because of grades"??? What the FUCK kind niyad Sep 25 #26

That is sadistic torture/abuse. 58Sunliner Sep 25 #30

If this was my daughter, I'd have a "counseling session" with the coach. rsdsharp Sep 25 #32

The dance coach thought this would mwmisses4289 Sep 25 #33

11th grade PE coach made us do them every class Ponietz Sep 25 #34