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agreed. kids do have poor perceptions of time, but in my experience teachers usually say how long the punishment is for "go do x for x minutes" so he could be telling the truth. but yeah, it's not appropriate no matter how long it was. we had tons of teachers make us do stuff like this when i was a child (go texas!) and even as a young kid i thought it was fucked up.
In elementary school we did this and our gym teacher said if we could do it more than ten minutes he would buy us McDonald’s. The class ended and a kid was still doing it, he got his McDonald’s and a Walkman from the teacher. >

What a legend. >

That kid did a 15 minute wall sit?  Daaaamn. Fucked up thing to do to a kid though. >

I recall having to do a couple minutes at a basketball camp and being so sore the next day. That seems insanely long. >

I rowed in college, we’d do hour long wall sit sessions. The key is shifting pressure back and forth between your legs and making sure your feet and your back have a ton of grip on the ground and the wall to avoid any additional strain. >

That's really smart. >

Sitting on the ground is much smarter >

I could lay down in bed and take a nap in my sleep. >

Big brain >

He should have warned him! >

Here's the wiki for a wall sit: link
15 minutes is a very long time to do it. It's described as being like a 'jetliner position', which can be used as a form of physical torment. >

In HS several of my teachers would use wall-sits as a deterrent from being late to class. 1 min of wall-sits per minute late. No one ever did more than 6 minutes iirc. It seemed like a fairly harmless deterrent from being late. 
I was the fat kid in highschool and couldn't even finish a mile in 20 minutes. But I could do my share of wall-sits same as the rest of my classmates. I don't see how it's any different than forcing kids to do physical activity in phy-ed. So many things in phy-ed hurt way worse than wall sits. And I tried my best to do them all anyway. >

Ever done one for 15 minutes? >

If you can’t do it for 15 minutes, you don’t. You just stop. Have you never been to a gym? >

A kid was forced to do it as punishment in a classroom, not an adult doing reps at the gym you moron. Do you know how to read? >

There is a nationwide shortage of teachers primarily due to low pay and shitty parents. When that happens you get idiots like this in the classroom because school systems are desperate. If this is true that teacher should be fired on the spot. >

My daughter had a sub that was apparently a hardcore religious fanatic. He spent the class period telling all the girls that they should be ashamed for not wearing dresses and that they'd never find a husband. The kids immediately reported him.. and they still had him finish out the day with the principal "checking in often" because they had no one else(According to an email about the incident). 
I'm glad she's in middle school so she only had to deal with him for one period instead of all day.
In my state, they have a short course you can take to be a sub if you have a highschool diploma or GED. These "subs" are teaching for the entire year in some cases, though. >


they still had him finish out the day with the principal "checking in often"

At least the Principal wasn't like "So?"...  but yeah that sub should have been walked out and the Principal should have finished their day himself even if it just meant "Let's watch a movie about sea birds" (or not, see reply below) >

School admin here: it’s VERY hard for us to sub even for 15 minutes, as all student behavior and safety issues ultimately come to us.
I can’t go more than about 20min without needing to investigate a student behavior issue. Subbing the rest of the day in a class is nearly impossible. >


I can’t go more than about 20min without needing to investigate a student behavior issue.

As a parent of a child with executive dysfunction,.. I believe you 😞
It sounds like the admin did the best they could in that situation. >

Thank you for all you do for your child. Our kids need more support than ever — and it’s no one’s fault.
I know people want to blame parents, or teachers, or admin. It’s no one’s fault.
Our kids just need love, attention, and support more than ever. Thank you for what you do at home! >

I used to coach kids for gymnastics and climbing, at an actual competitive level. We'd do these sometimes. Anything over a minute and a half is crazy, even in that context, and not great for developing joints. >

For those wondering, this is a wall sit. You're holding a squat position while leaning against the wall.
This wasn't asking the child to sit in the floor or in a chair against the wall.
His legs were shaking and hurting from holding that position for so long, as you'd expect. >

Next week is kneeling on rice. >

you get a free upgrade to legos if you stop wincing >

I walk over legos >

kneeling on them is kinda different though. >

Lego Studded Ice. >

Every fitness person is thinking "15 MINUTES!?". Make that teacher do a 30 minute one. >

If safety was a priority you wouldn’t keep someone on staff that hurt a child.
Mom is right for pulling the child out that is insane. >

"Last month, there was a coach that got in his face and made him do thirty push-ups in front of the class because he wouldn’t run," Stephans said. "He has asthma."
I feel like that's a bigger story. >


"The principal told me the staff wasn’t supposed to be acting in such a manner."

The principal probably doesn't know what's going on in their own school because there are a lot of half-assed pieces of shit in school administration. >

Or, because he is the principal of an Oklahoma school, he knows exactly what’s going on, and that’s what he signed up for. >

I had to do this as a form of punishment IN THE CANADIAN NAVY, wich was fair.
A kid should not have to do this >

Yeah, I would not accept this as a punishment at all, if you think you can physically torture me in this day and age, ya got something coming for you. >

Teacher went full drill sergeant. >

I heard they were relaxing standards to allow veterans as teachers but this is ridiculous. >

My brother was taking a karate class once. He did something wrong, and for punishment he had to be down on the floor with his hands underneath his knees, and forehead touching the floor for the remainder of the class. When he was allowed to sit up, his face was completely swollen. We never went back to that class. >

If that were my kid, I would have gone back to that class exactly once, and that would be to beat the shit out of that instructor in front of his class. >

But if the guy knows karate? >

Former karate instructor here. My experience was that the majority of instructors in most American-based martial arts styles probably aren’t hard to beat up.
Yes, I know your sensei is the exception and a badass. >

Quads are jacked.  Can probably dunk a basketball now. >

Absolute god quad >

Apparently this was some sort of twisted get back by the coach because he refused to run the week before because he has asthma
A lot of sadists gravitate towards working in schools because kids are powerless, parents are too busy, and school administrators enjoy wielding power for power's sake >

I’d be ripping someone a new asshole >

I don’t think that kid could do a 15 minute wall sit…🤷🏾‍♂️ >

I want to find a source that confirms it was a 15 minute wall sit and not the kid saying "I had to wall sit for like 15 minutes". >

This story is kind of suspect. I wrestled as a kid and wall sits were a pretty frequent punishment for whatever. There isnt a universe where I could’ve done anywhere near a 15 minute wall sit. Either this kid is superman or he is exaggerating. >

I agree it sounds like the kid was exaggerating. Teacher probably shouldn't make the kid do that but I doubt exercise is going to hurt the kid. >

Impressive core strength. >

And that day Jimmy did NOT skip leg day. >

Just because some of ya'll in the comments had to do this in school including me, It doesn't make it right, Its a valid disagreement on how to punish a kid.  This made the boy a target of ridicule and thats never ok. >

Just Oklahoma things. There's not enough people willing to do the harder and lesser paying jobs, so you get places where they have to let despicable and terrible people work these kind of important jobs. >

Now this child has a 45” vertical jump as measured during recess, playing basketball >

Something tells me the kid is lying ...a 15 min wall sit.... 15 min ... Then again it's probably the mom exaggerating not the child. >

I mean, the kid doesn't  necessarily need to be lying, although that could be true. Kids have very poor perceptions of time. On top of that, time stands completely still when doing wall sits. 
I doubt it was actually 15 minutes. Either way, wall sits aren't an appropriate punishment.