Teaching kids to calm themselves and focus. The horrors!!!

Op, go back under your bridge.

op is trolling. stop engaging

Anonymous wrote:I have perfect reasoning ability. You all are clueless.

I am not writing in links so the links can prove my point, but to make the point that all the links you send are meaningless, because all the sources you bring up also have written articles making my point.

You can be selective about the words you use, and pretend that you are using something secularly. It is still the wrong place for it. You think you’re being cool by adapting these behaviors, and don’t take a minute to think for a second of what they mean. You are the same people who are tearing down statues because their origins are linked to slavery, but refuse to look at the roots of meditation because it makes you think you are hip with your expense yoga pants.

You are just empty heads.

OP first of all, it's a lousy comparison.
With reference to Confederate statues as an example, their origins aren't so much linked to slavery in many cases, they are linked to Jim Crow. A lot of this was done after Reconstruction ended, got ramped up during Jim Crow, and kept getting ramped up during the mid-20th Century civils rights struggles. And statues, after all, are created to express specific things.

As for meditation, how do you even know that non-believers had not used such techniques in the past? We're talking about physical things people can do all by themselves.

You know, the first printed book in the West was the Gutenberg Bible (and transmitting the Bible to ordinary people was a huge force in the early development of publishing in the West). You want we should eliminate printed books from school because of the roots of printing in western civilization?

Anonymous wrote:This comment reminds me of those people who wanted to ban Harry Potter because it promotes witchcraft.

Yep, also Pokemon.

There are absolutely Christians (don't know about other faiths) who believe that the very practice of meditation, e.g. quieting your thoughts allows room for Satan to sneak in, besides the ones who think yoga and meditation are specifically non-Christian religious practices.

DS' special ed teacher in ES did her masters research project (after he had her as a teacher) on using yoga and meditation in special ed.

The OP is looking to stir the pot with baseless nonsense. Cancel everything that we can possible scrap up that may/may not be deemed “offensive” or “religious” in any way shape or form.

And if your kids are truly in a dmv public school - you have much much bigger problems this year. Good grief - get a life.

I agree, Op. I’m in MCPS and I hate the whole meditation thing creeping in.

I am a big time atheist and my kids school encourages meditation and it never occurred to me that it was religious. It helps them calm down and deal with stress.

Anonymous wrote:I went to school in an EU country and we learned meditation and went on a secular meditation retreat. It was great.

You sound like Bridget Jones.

I went to school in an EU country and we learned meditation and went on a secular meditation retreat. It was great.

DP

I am reminded of the analogy, "Talking with him was like trying to play tennis with a giant marshmallow."

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Anonymous wrote:I am very involved within the yoga and meditation world and wanted to pass on this article to you. A judge ruled in a famous Encinitas case that yoga is not a religious practice in school.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197712791/calif-judge-rules-yoga-in-public-schools-not-religious

I encourage you to really think about what’s bothering you so much about children using stress reduction breathing techniques in school. There’s no talking of spirituality or religion the way it’s being taught in schools. The goal is Teaching children self-regulation. Instead of sending them to timeout or detension, we’re seeing amazing results by kids learning to self regulate.

Of course you see amazing results. That’s why religion is so popular, because people that practice have a better quality of life than the ones that don’t.

Unfortunately you all correlate religion with Christian bigots, so if it’s not Christian bigoted it can’t be religious in your eyes.

Excuse me, my father is Japanese Buddhist, and has never thought that meditation, as taught in Western schools, has anything to do with his spiritual practice.

On the contrary, I think your misguided opinion shows how little you know about Buddhism that you would boil it down to this. It's a form of bias that you have, OP.

Who are you?

A person living in the DC area with children meditating in public school. Why do you ask?

See, you, through your father, have meditation woven into your genetic religious fabric, so it’s presence is school doesn’t bother you, even though you think it’s not taught like the ‘real’ thing.

Sorry to disappoint you, but my mother is Catholic, and I don't practice any religion However, my multicultural upbringing allows me to understand that meditation taught by schools in this area is not religious in the least.

Where did you think I was disappointed? You actually helped my point.

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Anonymous wrote:I am very involved within the yoga and meditation world and wanted to pass on this article to you. A judge ruled in a famous Encinitas case that yoga is not a religious practice in school.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197712791/calif-judge-rules-yoga-in-public-schools-not-religious

I encourage you to really think about what’s bothering you so much about children using stress reduction breathing techniques in school. There’s no talking of spirituality or religion the way it’s being taught in schools. The goal is Teaching children self-regulation. Instead of sending them to timeout or detension, we’re seeing amazing results by kids learning to self regulate.

Of course you see amazing results. That’s why religion is so popular, because people that practice have a better quality of life than the ones that don’t.

Unfortunately you all correlate religion with Christian bigots, so if it’s not Christian bigoted it can’t be religious in your eyes.

Excuse me, my father is Japanese Buddhist, and has never thought that meditation, as taught in Western schools, has anything to do with his spiritual practice.

On the contrary, I think your misguided opinion shows how little you know about Buddhism that you would boil it down to this. It's a form of bias that you have, OP.

Who are you?

A person living in the DC area with children meditating in public school. Why do you ask?

See, you, through your father, have meditation woven into your genetic religious fabric, so it’s presence is school doesn’t bother you, even though you think it’s not taught like the ‘real’ thing.

Sorry to disappoint you, but my mother is Catholic, and I don't practice any religion However, my multicultural upbringing allows me to understand that meditation taught by schools in this area is not religious in the least.

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Anonymous wrote:I am very involved within the yoga and meditation world and wanted to pass on this article to you. A judge ruled in a famous Encinitas case that yoga is not a religious practice in school.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197712791/calif-judge-rules-yoga-in-public-schools-not-religious

I encourage you to really think about what’s bothering you so much about children using stress reduction breathing techniques in school. There’s no talking of spirituality or religion the way it’s being taught in schools. The goal is Teaching children self-regulation. Instead of sending them to timeout or detension, we’re seeing amazing results by kids learning to self regulate.

Of course you see amazing results. That’s why religion is so popular, because people that practice have a better quality of life than the ones that don’t.

Unfortunately you all correlate religion with Christian bigots, so if it’s not Christian bigoted it can’t be religious in your eyes.

Excuse me, my father is Japanese Buddhist, and has never thought that meditation, as taught in Western schools, has anything to do with his spiritual practice.

On the contrary, I think your misguided opinion shows how little you know about Buddhism that you would boil it down to this. It's a form of bias that you have, OP.

Who are you?

A person living in the DC area with children meditating in public school. Why do you ask?

See, you, through your father, have meditation woven into your genetic religious fabric, so it’s presence is school doesn’t bother you, even though you think it’s not taught like the ‘real’ thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I am very involved within the yoga and meditation world and wanted to pass on this article to you. A judge ruled in a famous Encinitas case that yoga is not a religious practice in school.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197712791/calif-judge-rules-yoga-in-public-schools-not-religious

I encourage you to really think about what’s bothering you so much about children using stress reduction breathing techniques in school. There’s no talking of spirituality or religion the way it’s being taught in schools. The goal is Teaching children self-regulation. Instead of sending them to timeout or detension, we’re seeing amazing results by kids learning to self regulate.

Of course you see amazing results. That’s why religion is so popular, because people that practice have a better quality of life than the ones that don’t.

Unfortunately you all correlate religion with Christian bigots, so if it’s not Christian bigoted it can’t be religious in your eyes.

I have to add:

What will you do when Larla and Larlo fight, and the teacher tells them: “why are you fighting children? You have to love thy neighbor as thyself.”

I have a pretty clear idea of how that’s gonna go.

The problem here is that you know Western religions relatively well, so as soon as you see/hear something pertaining to that religion you correct it right away. With meditation you are only familiar with the portions served to you, so you don’t make an instinctive immediate connection.

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