Last night I was watching Sierra at gynmastics. A typical gymnastics class for her lasts 1.5 hours and goes like this:
- Warm up (running around, doing pushups, etc.)
- Move onto different sections of the gym…balance beams, trampoline, tumble track, etc.
Around an hour into the class I notice Sierra’s class come back to the exercise area and doing running drills and pushups and burpees and you name it, they did it.
I’m watching girls collapsing, girls yelling “I’m having a heart attack!” and I was thinking “What is going on here?”. Sierra looked winded but she kept doing what she was being asked to do.
Turns out the entire class was being punished because most of the girls weren’t listening to the instructor.
Sierra couldn’t believe how she was punished along with the others because she was staying quiet and doing what the instructor asked her to do.
I remember this being a classic form of punishment when I was a kid. It never made any sense…usually the good people in class aren’t the ones that are going to stand up to the troublemakers and make them follow the rules! So the good guys get punished for no reason whatsoever.
I was hoping that in the year 2025 we would have more targeted forms of punishment but as Sierra’s body can attest the day after, I guess not!