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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Making a child run laps as punishment is illegal in Virginia, and most other states . If your child's teacher does this, contact the principal immediately. [/quote]

I don't actually know the law so I'm going to assume you're correct and it is illegal, in which case obviously any school doing this should stop. But I'm curious as to why. As I said in a previous post on this thread, this is a technique we sometimes use at home, generally quite effectively, and I would have no objection to it being used in school. I read on this board all the time how parents say their kid can't meet the school's behavior expectations because the child is not getting enough exercise and time during the day to be active but then when the consequence for bad behavior is exercise parents are upset? This does not make sense. If lack of exercise is a significant contributor to bad behavior, then requiring a bit more exercise as a consequence of poor choices isn't even a bad punishment it's just consequences that will fix the problem. So which is it - do kids need exercise to behave well and be successful in school or is exercise some sort of illegal cruel and unusual punishment?[/quote]

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