Posted on 04/07/2024 11:19:20 PM PDT by Morgana
A Texas family is demanding answers after their seventh grader came home from school with second-degree burns on her hands - allegedly from a punishment for laughing in class.
Caldwell Junior High's Caydence Wilson suffered the burns at the middle school, and her mom, Chloe Couch, shared her daughter's injuries Sunday morning in a post to social media.
The post was quickly shared by people perturbed by what they saw, with some of the images incredibly tough to look at.
KBTX spoke to both in-depth about what allegedly led to the burns, as the school issued a statement asserting it was investigating.
During the sit-down, Couch claimed she was not called or made aware of the situation, even after Caydence asked school staff if she could call her to bring home bandages.
'She tried to reach out to me, and it wasn't until she was on the bus ride home that she sent me those pictures of those blisters oozing,' Couch said of her daughter's injuries, which have already put a financial burden on the Caldwell family
'I'm a single mom of three kids,' she said. 'So I'm living paycheck to paycheck and making my ends meet how I can for my kids.
'I can't afford medical bills and medications and wraps that we're having to apply every four to six hours for the pain.'
Joined by Caydence, the mom went on to recall the harrowing hospital visit she and the child were forced to sit through, after the girl's softball coach allegedly forced her to do bear crawls on a blistering hot field.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You don’t go to the school first to file criminal charges.
You go there first if you’re looking for assurance of a quick payoff.
A kid suffering from abrasions or a minor injury during normal training or during an athletic competition is quite different IMO from being injured from what I see as an over-the-top punishment meted out by a coach for something as simple as laughing in class, and not even something that happened in the coach’s class.
The principal already gave the girl detention but said they “would let their softball coach know about the situation”.
I’m guessing the principal was thinking about the coach making the girl sit out the next practice or game and not giving her a physical punishment that resulted in severe burns.
BS
Blisters come from thin skin and work.
Artificial Turf should be banned.
I didn’t see any blisters...just pixelated spots. If these are “altered” photos...what else was altered to make it seem horrific?
The Daily Mail UK doing it’s thing...
When I was in the 7th grade (mid 70’s), our middle school had a multi-purpose room that served as our gym, auditorium, and our lunchroom.
As my class was the last to be served lunch, at the end of our lunch period (actually our lunch ended 10 minutes earlier than all the others), we kids had to gather all the folding chairs and stack them up in racks and also the large folding tables on wheels, which was mostly the boys’ job. These tables when folded were probably about +10’ tall. And this was pretty much unsupervised by any adults.
But the boys often got reckless as boys at that age can be and had “table races”.
One day a group of boys were pushing one of those large folding tables at great speed, not looking where they were going and ran into me as I was gathering folding chairs, knocking me over, the table hitting my head and knocking me out for short time.
The school didn’t call my parents and instead sent me to the nurse’s office where an ice pack was put on the big “egg” on my forehead.
When I got home and my mom and dad saw my “egg” and now my black eye, I told them what happened.
My dad was especially furious and went to the school the next day to talk to the principal.
He reminded the principal that this was not a job for kids, especially unsupervised to do, that his tax dollars paid for janitors whose job this should be and tore her a new “you know what” for not calling my parents or 9-11 when I was briefly knocked unconscious.
He didn’t call the police or file a police report or file a lawsuit, but as a result of his rather heated conversation with the principal, we kids no longer had to do this. We still had to gather the folding chairs, but the janitors had to fold and remove the folding tables.
Huh, I guess I would be considered a “quick payoff” guy by you then.
Whenever my kids had a problem at school, first thing I did was go to the school and talk to the teachers and principal. No sense involving the cops if it is a misunderstanding. That said, when my daughter’s purse was stolen in class, I forced the principal to keep everyone in class and search all their backpacks. Principal did not want to do it because “the kids will miss the bus”. Principal was black, and the kid that stole the purse was black ... but daughter got her purse back and everything in it. I let the Principal know that if the kids got on the bus, I would have the cops come and THEY would search the backpacks. When the purse was found, I told the Principal that the student had to be punished or I would file charges against her.
Out of curiosity, I checked, and Caldwell is in the low 80s range so far this week. Ambient temperature of 95 seems to be when asphalt in direct sunlight can cause a burn. I don’t know what she crawled on, but it must’ve been a hotter day. I watched a few videos because I’ve never heard of this exercise before, and I wonder why only the outside part of her palm got blistered and the inside part or her fingers. All the demonstrators had their hands flat on the floor.
I was too afraid of my coaches to find out what a punishment would be in their class. I suspect it would’ve just involved running some laps.
I’m with you. I remember when the neighbors could beat you and your parents would go over that night and thank them.
The student isn’t so bright either.
If her description is accurate, why would she willingly burn herself?
I suspect her so-called burns are not really severe. I grew up in the tropics and something like this never happened.
“Why should their home address be published?”
Sarcasm just isn’t your thing, is it?
CC
Why tell the coach when he/she had zero to do with the class she laughed in? That’s another teacher who needs to be charged in the legal case.
Can’t stand coaches. Never met one who didn’t enjoy throwing their weight around and meting out ridiculous punishments.
Monster female coach. We had one in middle school. Lived with the other female coach. Enough said.
Are you aware that severe infection can result from an open wound? President Calvin Coolidge's son died from a foot blister from basketball.
This girl's blisters had already popped when she asked for mercy, and was denied relief until she finished the sentence imposed by the diesel coach, at which time dirt and particles entered the open wounds, which had to be abraded (scraped clean) at the hospital.
That and blackboards disappeared 40+ years ago, so theres that too.
Good job, Dad!
I wondered, too; but possibly she was trying to avoid putting a palm flat down on a hot surface, which must have felt like a clothes iron. I remember walking on my feets' heels when entering a hot sandy beach for the same reason.
I thought of those things too.
This story and the hysteria are entirely bullshit.
“Can’t stand coaches...”
bgill I so agree with you. More so in the school systems. Coaches are not teachers. They are coaches the school hired to coach but have to double or pretend to be a teacher. Most with rare exceptions are lousy teachers.
This is why I brought up the old fashion punishment of cleaning back boards and erasers because that is what a teacher would have done. Doing this “bear” thing what ever it was is what a coach would do. The teacher is smart, she gets a cleaner class room and the student gets their aggressions out on the erasers. All the coach gets these days is a lawsuit.
I was in school 40 years ago and we still had them
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