Vancouver father hopes to end mindfulness classes at elementary school

Vancouver father hopes to end mindfulness classes at elementary school

A Vancouver man has launched a campaign to have mindfulness classes eliminated from his daughter's school. Ray Chwartkowski wants other parents to know what's going on at Elsie Roy Elementary and an increasing number of other schools that offer daily mindfulness sessions for young students.

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The core component of Mindfulness is meditation. One Vancouver father thinks that teaching mindfulness in schools should be stopped because meditation has its roots in Buddhist practice. OMFG! I'm pretty sure that any religious legacy can be effectively extracted from academic meditative practice.