Is this a legal punishment for a 3rd grader?

File a complaint with the principal, the school district and the school board. Talk to other parents of punished/unpunished children and get together on this. Bring up the issue at the next PTA meeting. Whether or not it's technically legal may not matter if parents raise a big enough stink. If you don't get a satisfactory response from the school officials, call in the media. The pressure of public opinion can be powerful.

American regulation is poorly written while it includes crimes of the extra youthful. the two boys who have been to blame for the Jonesboro Arkansas college shotting which lilled 8 or 10 human beings have been purely held till their 18th birthdays, because of way the regulations have been on the time. Kill 8 human beings, visit juvenile hall for 5 years. seems truthful, does not it? considered one of them grow to be purely arrested lower back for a parole violation of a few style. yet i think of the two considered one of them would have been locked up for existence and society does not have lost something. I doubt the two one might have long gone directly to treatment maximum cancers, or write the excellent American Novel. those third graders will go directly to thrilling careers as criminals i'm advantageous. regardless of each and every little thing, they only found available are not any effects in existence.

i don't believe this is an ETHICAL punishment for a 3rd grader especially for a child "speaking out of turn." 3rd graders talk, its a fact of life! Nobody should be judging you child because kids talk at that age! school should still be fun because we all know once you get older it needs to be taken serious. i would definitely contact the principal and if he\she doesn't seem concerned, contact the school board and keep moving up the chain of authority! no child should feel almost scared in school!

Good Luck! I have a brother who is about the same age and is a "social" child so i'm feeling for you! that's nothing your child should be ashamed of :)

Of course it's legal. Running for 15 minutes in 95 degree heat is not going to kill or hurt your son. If you think cps would do anything if you did that, you're severely severely mistaken. That doesn't get anywhere close to child abuse.

If you don't like it, you should first teach your children how to follow the rules. Next, talk to the principal and school board.

That is basically child abuse.You can't physically punish a child like that.That is wrong for them to do.I mean really?Your gonna make a kid run just for talking out of turn?I can see maybe doing a little bit of writing or something like that.

Well... maybe they'll listen now, lol.

Oh stop being so politically correct, I mean, hell they use to physically hit children back in the old days and everyone accepted it.

as you described it, it sounds like you have reason to be concerned