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“Texas middle school cheerleaders suffer first and second degree burns after punishment from coach” I feel like there's something really important to understand even beyond this particular incident so what happened here was there was a cheerleading squad in eighth grade which means they would have been around 13 years old they were being punished by the coach for cheerleader reasons they had performed a cheer that they'd been told not to do or something and their punishment was they would go out to the track and do bear crawls and crab walks for a mile just for reference this is a bear crawl 
[0:31]
this is a crab walk so they were to do that for one mile around the track the problem was this was a hot sunny afternoon in Texas and the surface of the track was at around 125 degrees the children had told the coach it was burning their hands the coach said do it anyway in other words that was part of the punishment the 13 girls wound up with first and second degree burns at least one of them had to be treated at a burn unit the children had went to see the school nurse and got treated but it should be noted that the nurse did not inform anyone 
[1:01]
they didn't see anything wrong here it was only when the kids came home and told their parents that the parents complained and action was taken the school immediately came out and acknowledged that it happened and that the coach had been placed on administrative leave but I'm not just bringing this up so we can get our daily dose of outrage everyone needs to know - parents teachers kids one of the most difficult lessons in life for a kid to learn is how to relate to authority because especially if you are a “good Christian kid” 
[1:32]
your disposition is always going to be to do what the grownups tell you and if you listen to authority figures they spend all their time complaining that the kids these days you can't tell them anything they don't listen they don't pay attention kids must be taught that there are times when it is okay to defy authority or to question why something is being done many if not most of us will reach adulthood even well into adulthood with no concept of when or if it's okay to do that 
[2:07]
there are adults in this world who cannot be trusted to have power over someone smaller and weaker than them and they know that many if not most kids are terrified of the nebulous idea of being in trouble and you will be shocked at how far they can push things before somebody eventually pushes back and maybe the weirdest and most chilling example I've heard of is one that I can't even talk about here because any of the details would get this video pulled you can search “Mount Washington McDonald's incident” if you wanna read about it 
[2:39]
they actually made a film about it called Compliance I'm not trying to stir up a rage mob against the school or this coach this has already made headlines the school already knows they're in trouble make this a learning moment none of the kids involved thought they had any option but to comply and to be absolutely clear I am not blaming the parents for not raising kids that knew to say no to this most kids would have done the same I would have done the same at that age 
[3:09]
I am specifically saying that for a “good kid” it is an incredibly difficult lesson to learn and then internalize the key is understanding that the world is full of people in positions of power who know they can take advantage of that it took me a long time to learn that part of surviving in this life is knowing when it's okay to break the rules