13-year-old boy hospitalized for a week after doing push-ups at school as a punishment

13-year-old boy hospitalized for a week after doing push-ups at school as a punishment

DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) - The mother of 13-year-old Donell Dixon says he's been at Children's Hospital for 7 days after doing push-ups at his school, The David Ellis Academy.

Vinyanda Mitchell says it was a punishment for running in the hall and closing lockers and her son had the choice of detention or push-ups, Donell says he did 100.

The Director of the school, Sylvia Green says the coach says it was three sets of 20 and the boys were able to pause in between and drink water.

The day after the incident the teen says his arm swelled to double its normal size, so his mother took him to the emergency room.

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sounds like an appropriate choice of discipline. would have been surprised if son effected, but wouldnt blame coach, or school.

guess i am going to have to read artile to see why this happened.

on edit... interesting, and aware of this with younger kids. why important to be aware having the younger ones lift weights.

At lest if they are doing push ups they are getting into shape. Maybe they need to lower the number for safety?

push up so many of them are not much work or proper anyway, i figure. but the kids start doing this kind of exercise anyway in 6th grade and our physical ed departments increases the level of exercise yearly. so at 13.... 7th or 8th grade, that is not way out of what the kids are normally doing anyway.

as "abusive" by some here I guess. :shrug:

bitch that they had to do all that extra cause class misbehaves.... i always have a huge smile and oh well, .... should have behaved. lol. i like the kids working otu and exercising.

oldest had a 5th grade p.e. teacher. new to teaching. young, fit. i loved this man. he worked the kids. first pe class the kids actually had to work out. my son was not really athletic at that point and didnt have a lot fo confidence. but he tries for coach, teacher. and this man really instilled a lot of wonderful stuff in son. son worked hard. learned lots. end of school year, i was so impressed with this teacher and all he gave son, i verbally praised. son had won most improved end of year, gaining confidence in his scauny. i said something to coach, and he told me how he had to cut back cause aprents were complainging working kids too hard.

no no i would say. you were doing great.

some parents dont like it

being athletic, i had always seen benefits to working hard.

hard to believe push ups could be the sole cause of this.

Are we sure we are getting the whole story here?

:thumbsup:

Codswallop and bullshit. Fucking pushups won't hurt a 13-year-old boy.

there are many non-physical or abusive ways too deal with a child's behaviors other than being a bully

He could have chosen detention.

using physical fitness for punishment is excellent in my book. both my sons have told me how they had to spend "all period" (exageration always) running because kids were misbehaving.

Especially for active boys, this kind of discipline is effective in my experience. Mine would definitely rather have this than restriction or extra chores.

I don't agree with that. It wasn't corporal punishment. He had a choice between 100 pushups or detention. I assume he had either a preexisting condition or he was not active at all.

Physically exerting, yes. Abusive, hell no.

Why aren't we seeing more 7 day hospitalizations for high school football players who have to do pushups at practice?

Sorry. I'm calling bullshit here.

But I bet they are expert video gamers.

the little shit did whatever he could to get out of gym and simply wasn't in shape. But there would seem to be more than meets the eye here.

"The day after the incident the teen says his arm swelled to double its normal size, so his mother took him to the emergency room.

The medical papers she showed Action News says the diagnosis is Rhabdomyolysis, which is a break down of the muscles, often caused by over exertion.

It can lead to kidney problems and blood in the urine and Donell's mom says he has had that."

You have to be careful with children that you aren't frequently around because you don't know how much exercise they have been getting. Sudden exercise after long periods of sedentary behavior, can lead to serious injury.

A friend of mine recently almost died and she wasn't in the hospital 7 days.

We have made our kids do pushups (usually the boys) when they were being too snarky in a public place (we used jumping jacks when they were younger). If the boys did these in sets of 20, I don't see the problem.

Quite honestly, the fact that the coach let them pause in between and drink water shows that they weren't even that hard on him.