I am posting an article that was in the paper today.. Someones poor judgement lead to this poor kids death...

Dallas teen dies after running 'suicides'

Associated Press

• NBC5 video report

DALLAS - An overweight 13-year-old boy has died after running sprints and doing drills called a "suicide" for about 30 minutes in gym class.

A fellow classmate at T.W. Browne Middle School in South Dallas said that while they were all struggling with the exercise Wednesday, it was especially hard on 240-pound Neri Hernandez.

"He started running and the last suicide he did, that was when he hit the wall and fell," Stephanie Molina, a fellow classmate, told Dallas television station WFAA. "He started shaking. His eyes were white. He got brown foam coming out of his mouth."

"All we saw was tears coming out from his eyes," Molina said.

Classmate Jannette Soto told television station KXAS that a group of students including Hernandez were made to do the exercises as punishment for talking.

After Hernandez had previously passed out during exercise, his family had noted that in a school form.

The Dallas school district said the form the family filled out applies to sports and not the physical education class.

"And we did notice that there were some indications that he would be short of breath on occasion and so forth," said district spokesman Celso Martinez. "This would have disqualified him from a team, but not necessarily from physical education classes." DISD officials said they are investigating the death.

Insane! Suicide runs are killer runs, which require agility, speed and balance. He should have been exempt from this as he had health issues per his school records. How horrible.

Exercise, of light intensity should have been given to him instead of the very famous, Marine, Navy, Army, NBA, NFL - "suicide" run.

"And we did notice that there were some indications that he would be short of breath on occasion and so forth," said district spokesman Celso Martinez. "This would have disqualified him from a team, but not necessarily from physical education classes." DISD officials said they are investigating the death.

O how sad. The school district is NOT too smart. They screwed themselves by making that statement above. Here in Austin , Texas in general lately the schools are being OVERLY Cautious because in the past few weeks there have been SEVERAL Kids Die on the sports fields.

IN houston Last week alone there were 3 kids ( one in 7 grade) die on the football field . The week before that there was a Football player in the Austin are drop on the side lines on the feild. He was dead... The had a portable defibulator and they brought him back. IN the past 2 weeks I would say there have been close to 10 middle school to high school kids die.

They should be being more careful.

Mindy

um...can you say..insane! In florida we aren't allowed to use any thing like that as punishment for talking. A teacher at a school I was working at got let go because he made his students stand in a line outside the classroom door for talking....

That is exactly why I keep my kid indoors. He has Mitral Valve Prolapse with a guishing heart murmur that's being monitored. I keep him in dance and the arts. He works out at home with me where I can keep a close eye on him. My treadmill and some free weights. Not the heat kinda sports.

That is exactly why I keep my kid indoors. He has Mitral Valve Prolapse with a guishing heart murmur that's being monitored. I keep him in dance and the arts. He works out at home with me where I can keep a close eye on him. My treadmill and some free weights. Not the heat kinda sports.

My oldest is 14 and a wrestler and a football player. A football player in TEXAS no less . Scares the hell out of me. Not so much this yr since he's in middle school , they practice in the morning at 6 am . They are done before it even starts to get hot. Next yr however , 2 A Days Start. High School football in Texas is INTENSE. And i worry about him. But he's very good at football ( I think he's done wrestling this yr too) . Every yr though , I get his heart tested. Evidenlty the heart disorder that all these kids have dropped from (ventricular Fiburlation Sp?) is detectable .... Once you have it you have it . It wont pop up all of a sudden. But I still get my son tested every yr at the heart hospital of Austin. If it is not that something else might pop up . For $175 they do a total heart work up .

Sometimes at the start of the yr they will do the vent. Fib. test for free.

So its worth it , I Dont want to stop him from playing but i want him to be safe . Still worry about it though.

Mindy