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RecoveringJournalist

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16. Really?

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 01:10 PM

Sep 2025

This is the road on which you choose to travel? Really? I'm an educated Indiana native and bleed smurf blue. Yes, Eva Braun's cousin twice removed may indeed be our governor. And yes, the state generally runs Soviet era red. But we're not all rednecks. Think before you post, please.

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This headline kept getting worse and more unexpected as I read left-to-right Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #1

Yes, we have dance teams. BluesRunTheGame Sep 2025 #10

Haaa! Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #21

Really? RecoveringJournalist Sep 2025 #16

Some of the radial right wing religious nut jobs in blood red states Dr. T Sep 2025 #29

Majorettes. 58Sunliner Sep 2025 #31

Horrible. Fire that coach. Ritabert Sep 2025 #2

Fire the coach. Dawson Leery Sep 2025 #3

You test the pavement with your own hand before taking your DOG for a walk for crying out loud underpants Sep 2025 #4

We say "W-thing".... Bettie Sep 2025 #17

We used to have a dog that learned to spell, pig latin and to spell backwards. We gave up. appleannie1 Sep 2025 #23

They'll figure it out leftstreet Sep 2025 #25

Our dogs know the signs of an impending walk. yellowcanine Sep 2025 #36

Hi Coach...Guess what you're gonna be doing today? MotherFu.......!! chouchou Sep 2025 #5

so many of us have completely lost our minds. stopdiggin Sep 2025 #6

Arrest that coach. That's child abuse, straight-up. NT Happy Hoosier Sep 2025 #7

Also assault. yellowcanine Sep 2025 #37

Indiana needs to attract better teachers by upping Emile Sep 2025 #8

WTF is wrong with people? n/t SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #9

That is insane PatSeg Sep 2025 #11

It sounds like that scene from "Dazed and Confused" but not as lighthearted. harumph Sep 2025 #12

One of the girls was still hospitalized a week later due to heat exhaustion and 2nd degree burns. chowder66 Sep 2025 #13

School is weird, the teachers can be weird, coaches can go berzerk. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #14

The parents need to file criminal charges dlk Sep 2025 #15

The temperature of a brown colored Trex decking exposed to sunlight at 44 degrees north latitude is over 150 degrees. waterwatcher123 Sep 2025 #18

Eastern burbs of Indy. maxsolomon Sep 2025 #19

Plus school just started catchnrelease Sep 2025 #22

My sister's Indiana HS (Madison Co.) starts August 6th. maxsolomon Sep 2025 #28

That's really early! catchnrelease Sep 2025 #35

Jane Pauley was a graduate of Warren Central. BluesRunTheGame Sep 2025 #20

If it was my daughter, I would file charges of assault against the coach. appleannie1 Sep 2025 #24

At the very least. niyad Sep 2025 #27

"forced to do extra practice because of grades"??? What the FUCK kind niyad Sep 2025 #26

That is sadistic torture/abuse. 58Sunliner Sep 2025 #30

If this was my daughter, I'd have a "counseling session" with the coach. rsdsharp Sep 2025 #32

The dance coach thought this would mwmisses4289 Sep 2025 #33

11th grade PE coach made us do them every class Ponietz Sep 2025 #34