--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > However, they have been unable to convince any parents > > to bring lawsuit against the local schools and the David > > Lynch Foundation over the TM Quiet Time issue so far, > > Ah, TM "Quiet Time",what perfect rebranding. Who could > object to a little quiet time.
Uh, Curtis, TM didn't invent the term or the concept. It actually originated with evangelical Christianity. However, it's now become a generic term for a period in school equivalent to "nap time" for preschoolers. (In some schools, in fact, Quiet Time involves mindfulness meditation.) You are aware that Lynch's Quiet Time program involves a choice between TM and some other Quiet Time activity (not funded by Lynch), are you not? <snip> > Good intentions aren't enough. And panacea cures > don't address the social ills that are dragging down > these kids. No, but maybe it'll help them deal with those ills without freaking out. (And if they can then make it through school and through college and get decent jobs, that *could* begin to make a dent in the social ills they had to grow up with.) > But it wouldn't even matter if TM did work to raise > them up. They wont practice TM, nobody does. "Nobody does"? Want to rethink that? They may not continue TM once they aren't in an environment that mandates Quiet Time; but again, just managing to get through school without falling apart one way or another would be a major benefit for many of them.
