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Report: Public School Students Not Getting Enough PE
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Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum announced findings of a new report that reveal public school students are getting much, much less physical education than they ...
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Sterling Studios, Wednesday, May 7, 5:30-6:45 pm, Kripalu Yoga for Beginners, with Cindy Sterling and John Wall; 7-8 pm, Yoga Stretch with Michelle Davis, ...
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Badminton: Bobcaygeon Badminton Club meets every Tuesday at the Bobcaygeon Public School from 7- 9 pm 738-3305. Children's Story Time: At the The Gayle ...
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Speaking to The Times of India, district police chief Deepak Ratan said: "We have so far learnt that the school yoga teacher was asked to resign from his ...
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Yoga instructor Bhaskar Goswami from Bodhi will hold an informative evening on the principles of yoga whose aim is to create harmony through a union between ...
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Community Education is offering a yoga class entitled ?A Basic Yoga Practice.? Classes will be from 5:30 to 6:30 pm Tuesdays, May 6, 13, ...
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A free Yoga & Meditation Classes takes place at the Northmead Secondary School in Phoenix every Saturdays from 10h00 ? 11h00. ...
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Port Washington Public Library, 1 Library Drive. (516) 883-4400; www.pwpl.org. SETAUKET Setauket Neighborhood House Yoga Workshop Fund-raiser. Yoga workshop ...
Martin County Community Calendar for May, 2008
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New moves: a school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent girls -
D Neumark-Sztainer, M Story, PJ Hannan, J Rex - Preventive Medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
... dance, self-defense, kickboxing, water aerobics, and yoga. ... High percentages of girls
reported that the ... girls (10 from each intervention school) participated in ...

Impact of haze from forest fire to respiratory health: Indonesian experience -
TY Aditama - Respirology, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
... Tjandra Yoga Aditama. ... relatively low polluted area; NOX 36.52 g/m 3 and TSP 198.91
g/ m 3 ) in central Kalimantan, which examined 127 high school students. ...

[BOOK] The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice
G Feuerstein - 2002 - books.google.com
... Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai-400 026 120, Royapettah High Road, Mylapore ... I dreamed
of abandoning school, which I found utterly boring, to ... 3o THE YOGA TRADITION ...

Yoga for Women With Hyperkyphosis: Results of a Pilot Study -
GA Greendale, A McDivit, A Carpenter, L Seeger, MH … - American Journal of Public Health, 2002 - Am Public Health Assoc
... Public Health 1611-1614 ? 2002 American Public Health Association ... Yoga for Women
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Evaluation of Yoga and Meditation Trainings with Adolescent Sex Offenders -
D Derezotes - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2000 - Springer
... (d) Individualize yoga and meditation programs. ... A version of these trainings could
be incorporated into family life (or other) classes in high schools. ...

Lay beliefs about schizophrenic disorder: the results of a population survey in Germany -
MC Angermeyer, H Matschinger - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1994 - Blackwell Synergy
... Meditatlon I Yoga ... popularity of the concept of stress with the lay public might lie ...
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S Sussman, CW Dent, KL Lichtman - Addictive Behaviors, 2001 - Elsevier
... of two tobacco use cessation clinic programs within a traditional high school setting,
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Sahaja Yoga Meditation as a Family Treatment Programme for Children with Attention Deficit- … -
LJ Harrison, R Manocha, K Rubia - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004 - ccp.sagepub.com
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Stress Management: A Randomized Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Yoga -
J Granath, S Ingvarsson, U von Thiele, U Lundberg - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
... Cognitive behaviour therapy Yoga n519 n518 Gender Male 5 (26%) 5 (28%) Female 14
(74%) 13 (72%) Level of education Swedish high school 6 (44%) 7 (35 ...

… Institutional Categories: Implicationsfor Theory and Research in the History and Sociology of School …
WA Reid - Defining the Curriculum: Histories and Ethnographies, 1984 - books.google.com
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Public School Follies: Y is for Yoga

BY MICHELLE MALKIN
The surgeon general really needs to slap a health warning on The New York Times. My blood pressure increases a few points every time I read it. Last week, the newspaper of record pimped the Next Great American Education Fad: In-school yoga classes.

According to the piece, “Less Homework, More Yoga, From a Principal Who Hates Stress,” the head of Needham High School in the Boston suburbs is pushing “stress reduction” through better stretching and breathing. Principal Paul Richards, who last earned nationwide mockery when he ditched publishing the honor roll, is part-Oprah, part-Deepak Chopra, part-Richard Simmons and all edu-babble.

“It’s not that I’m trying to turn the culture upside down,” he’s quoted telling the Times. “It’s very important to protect the part of the culture that leads to all the achievement,” he said. “It’s more about bringing the culture to a healthier place.”

And here I thought high school principals should make schooling, not “bringing the culture to a healthier place,” their top priority. Silly me. Welcome to your new Nanny State nightmare.
Yoga classes are now a requirement for Needham High School seniors. To further ease the supposed burden on overworked students, Richards has “asked teachers to schedule homework-free weekends and holidays.” Just what we need to turn around those one in 10 schools that are now considered “dropout factories,” huh? Can’t cut it in the classroom? Bend like a bridge, take five deep, slow breaths, and all will be dandy.
Why stop at yoga? Tantric chanting, here we come. And, hey, Kabbalah has done wonders for Madonna. Let’s add hypnotism and acupuncture classes while we’re at it. Hot stone massages? Bonsai tree clipping? No Relaxation Technique Left Behind!

Some point to a number of tragic student suicides to justify larding up the school day with Tree Poses and Sun Salutations. But the school officials themselves admit the deaths were not related to stress. No matter. Richards is using them to forge ahead with “a movement to push back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools amid the extreme competition over college admissions.” It appears there are now more than 40 other high schools and middle schools that embrace the “Stressed Out Students” agenda.
There’s another yoga curriculum popular in California, Yoga Ed., that has trained 10,000 teachers in more than 100 schools nationwide.

And guess what else I discovered after trying to find out whether yoga was coming to a school near me? We are paying for this nonsense. The Yoga Ed. program, created by Hollywood spouse/socialite Tara Guber, was funded with taxpayer grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the federal Carol M. White Physical Education Program.
Bit by bit, the dumbed-down cult of mediocrity, secular extremism and multicultural madness has infected American public education. Instead of concentrating on the basics and then teaching children to manage and conquer their “stress” through internal discipline, we’re removing every last source of possible damage to their egos.

Math test scores have plummeted. Solution: Remove the United States from international competitions.

Students are failing. Solution: Hide the honor rolls so the underachievers don’t feel bad.
Elementary pupils don’t like drills and spelling tests. Solution: Fuzzy math and inventive spelling.

Families can’t manage their time. Solution: Less homework, more yoga.

“A lot of these kids,” lectures Principal Richards, “are being held hostage to the culture.” No kidding. When The New York Times invited one of Richards’ students to recommend stress-reduction techniques, he ended with this suggestion:

“Watch a short clip on YouTube (as long as you are not addicted). The amazing and often funny feats on the site are inspiring and often leave you feeling, ‘Hey I want to do that!’ This is a great attitude to have towards your work.”

Watch feats of stupidity on YouTube. Yeah, that’ll do wonders for American student achievement.

The only ones who need stress reduction right now are parents fed up with this runaway idiocy. If you think educrats are going to recover their senses any time soon, well, you know, don’t hold your breath.  

From the Right features commentary from leading national conservatives. Michelle Malkin is a political columnist and blogger whose web site, www.michellemalkin.com, has been ranked one of the best political blogs in the country by both Forbes and The Week magazines.
 
 
 
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