Exercise should not be viewed as punishment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exercise is a very broad term, and the types that would be used for punishment already are.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What kind of exercise would it be? What types are and where?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sit ups, push ups, wall sits, up downs, maybe sprints. It would be better used for minor offenses.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Those aren't punishments... You stole a pencil. Give me ten. Oh. Well shit I'm not going to steal a pencil ever again. That stuff is used in boot camps for disrespect. It's not punishment so much as a consequence. I don't see how it would be implemented in a school system though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They aren't if in small doses. 50 push ups is a punishment. I don't either :/

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Okay so what "minor offenses" would result in 50 push ups? Think your shit through :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Talking out of turn, disrupting class, cheating, etc. By the way, I know who you are now.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think the idea is good but it would be too hard to make it just. What are you talking about?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Obesity rates are up because of less people doing exercise and fatty foots. Using physical exercise as punishment will make them hate exercise and will think of exercise as a punishments making obesity rates go up more

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I still enjoy exercise even though it was a punishment used on me. Sports is exercise. There a lot of exercises that wouldn't be covered in the punishments.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes Maybe you enjoy it but not every body enjoys it. When I was younger my punishment was to be forced to stand in the corner. I don't particularly enjoy standing in a corner because I associate it with punishments (lame example I know)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When the mind fails, the body must be punished... I'm in the Corps of Cadets and there is never a time that this didn't work.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Okay so when people exercise they are punishing their mind? Exercise should not be viewed as a bad thing. Also, it wouldn't affect or deter some people. An unfit person and an athletic person could do the same thing as punishment but it'll be easier for one of them. Doesn't seem fair.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Suspension is easier on some people than others. Some people get to sit around for 5 days while others are punished by their parents and have to work. Some people can miss 5 days of school and be fine while 5 days could result in many failed tests for someone else. No punishment is equal punishment for everyone but this will at least give them more options of punishments to give out.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That I can agree with. I just think suspension and detention should stay in school and suicides and laps should be for sports.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Pain is in the mind, so yes. Almost like Pavlov's dogs and the concept spanking kids, yes, it does help. In the Corps we have very fit people and very unfit people. Obviously the punishments are fixed according to each person. An overweight and unathletic guy will have to crank out 50 push ups while a fit guy will have to do 500 for the same offense. So long as the pain is the same, it's fair. And to make sure it doesn't get out of hand, the person handing out the punishment has to do the workout as well. The trick is to set up the guy who did something wrong with someone that is slightly more in shape than him, but not so much that they could harm the other person because of a lack of empathy between the two during the workout.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

With parental permission? If I was a teacher I would try this tactic, even without the parents consent.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah but some parents would flip their everloving shit if their little baby had to do 10 push ups for talking out of turn.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think it would depend on how severe the punishment is, and if it fit the "crime" I wouldn't make a kid run a mile for disrupting class, but I might have made him step into the hall for jumping jacks...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well obviously the school would regulate the punishments.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Minor physical exercises won't even dent the behavior of kids. Most children that are even SOMEWHAT fit, the average, don't mind at all to do 10-20 pushups or sit ups, and if the kid is not fit? It become embarrassing for the child and his peers would make fun, causing more problems outside the classroom, definitely not worth the punishment. And an increased punishment? Making them do more strenuous activities requires supervision as well as the fact that it becomes a deprivation of learning time for the kid as well as possibly his classmates that have to sit through whatever process it is that the teacher does. That said, I would still give this thing a thumbs up if people knew a productive way to implement it. You still have to keep in mind how if the student(s) are doing something that requires a punishment in the first place, they're almost definitely going to show attitude to having to, essentially, punish themselves by making their bodies do work for someone else. I think making kids stand up for the rest of class could be a somewhat good punishment, as it causes them discomfort, and they would just not like it. Also, having them keep their arms parallel to shoulders.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Is this a trololol or serious or joke but serious that exercise is hard enough to be a punishment?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's serious. It would take a lot of exercise for me to view it a punishment but a lot of teenagers only find sports and the like enjoyable and not suicides and such.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh, then definitely not. First of all, it would require too much supervision and the like by the teacher or whatever. Second, the kind of people breaking rules wouldn't care about missing school, and because it would take time (either that or be ridiculously easy and not be a deterrent at all) they might even want to break rules so as to avoid a decent chunk of school and just get in some exercise within otherwise 'wasted' school hours. The only result would be gain. Also, if repeated offenses were made and it was actually worthy of a punishment, being very grueling, you wouldn't be able to do many other grueling exercises without injuring yourself, and it would therefore be against the rules. I hope all that made sense.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That would be assuming the punishment was during school and not after or before.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But the teacher is a good point. You could use the gym teacher or a coach of a sport.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well they're teachers too, no matter how essentially useless they are.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah but they are better at dealing out physical punishments that are fair.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well that doesn't mean they should be spending their time punishing someone. And you mean other punishments aren't fair?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At my school a lot of teachers make you do push ups if your late for class.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you're on a sports team or in gym class, yes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Back in elementary school (it was one of those small religious schools), we had pushups if we did something bad in class. It was never really a big deal, cuz i dont remember any of us ever being out of shape. more of a minor annoyance than a punishment haha

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's cause you don't really get fat till later -.-

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, it would be like instead of sitting in detention for 2 hours, you have to run laps or do annoying drills like suicides. But then again, that makes it like gym class or like a free trainer..hmm

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's not really easy to enforce. I'd refuse.

by Anonymous 11 years ago