School replaces detention with meditation
An American primary school has replaced traditional detention with meditation.
Robert W. Coleman Elementary in Baltimore works with a local non-for-profit called Holistic Life Foundation (HLFINC) which seeks to "nurture the wellness of children and adults in underserved communities".
The school's detention room has been replaced by a brightly coloured 'Mindful Moment Room', a space where misbehaving kids are sent to calm themselves with meditation and breathing exercises.
Children suffering from anxiety, headaches, stress and other ailments are also able to visit the room for sessions with the mindfulness instructors.
The program is having a fantastic impact on schools, with increased attendance rates and decreased suspension rates.
Do you think meditation is a better solution than detention? If you currently meditate, would you have been grateful for being introduced to the practice at a younger age?
Time to roll back the left wing culture that has colonised our classrooms
“The left planted its flag atop the educational establishment long ago. If we are to hope for better schools and smarter kids, that dominance must be overturned,” Dr Kevin Donnelly writes at Quadrant Online.
“Forget the cultural-left bias and PC group mentality of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, when it comes to a pervasive ideological commitment to the left nothing beats Australia’s education establishment.”
Dr Donnelly says the arrival of the Abbott Government immediately started the alarm bells ringing inside the system.
“There is nothing surprising or new about such outbursts. Australia’s educationalists, along with those in other English-speaking nations, embarked on the cultural left’s long march through schools and universities during the late 60s and early 70s.
“This was a time of the cultural revolution epitomised by Vietnam moratoriums, flower power, sexual liberation and attacks on established authorities represented by the universities, the Church and the nuclear family,” he writes.
Read Dr Donnelly’s Our Colonised Classrooms at Quadrant Online.
Good idea! Better than asking the YLC troll with the red fur
Students as young as five are doing daily meditation in class as the mindfulness movement sweeps Victorian schools.
Wellbeing workers are becoming more common as schools integrate mental health into learning to improve student wellbeing, grades and social skills.
Principals say meditation is more important than ever as children's minds become crowded by technology.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/students-as-young-as-five-doing-daily-meditation-as-mindfulness-movement-sweeps-victorian-schools/news-story/964f4b6a38e8bdaba06c64a492843241
Great, full approval. Meditation sure works for our support groups for kids at my Church.