SCHOOL REPLACES DETENTION WITH MEDITATION

What if instead of time out, grounding and other forms of punishment, you made the kid meditate? That’s what Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, is doing. Instead of having their students sit in cold detention rooms, kids sit in plush, relaxing pillows to learn about wellness and reflectiveness. The rooms are open so students can re-center themselves, breathe and manage their stress. The school, which also runs an afterschool meditation program, saw zero detentions in the past year. Other schools in the area have seen similar benefits of the program, such as higher attendance rates and lower discipline problems.
* “Timmy, you’re not leaving this room until you’re enlightened, do you hear me?”
* So their parents drive the karma-pool?
* What part of California was this story from? Wait? Maryland?
* How about throwing in a ball pit to help them meditate?
* I know I had plenty of reflectiveness in high school just meditating on how hot the cheerleaders were.
* We already had this in the classroom. We used to call it daydreaming.