Public schools across the U.S. are incorporating meditation practices in the classroom and placing children who don’t wish to participate in the hallway, according to a religious liberty legal group.
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) says the practice is “similar to anciently established Buddhist and Hindu practices” and violates the U.S. Constitution.
The schools use a program called Inner Explorer.
“By allowing inherently religious programs, like Inner Explorer, into the classroom, public schools are promoting a religion in violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution,” ACLJ’s Christina Stierhoff wrote in a story on the organization’s website. “Parents need to be assured that they can trust public school systems to properly educate their children, not indoctrinate them.”
Inner Explore says on its website its mission is to “provide mindfulness in schools for PreK-12 classrooms, helping children develop self-awareness, self-control, resilience and compassion.”
“Each series contains 90 audio-guided practices that can be used every day by simply logging in and pressing play,” the Inner Explorer website says. “Students and their teachers participate together in the brief (5-10 minute) daily practices. No prep, planning or curriculum changes required.”
Inner Explore maintains that its meditation is “not a…
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