That's radically different than the QT descriptions I have read about. Do you have proof of this besides what you heard someone say someone complained about?
L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : your assertions on this point are all incorrect - there were TM teachers at at least one school everyday. The pujas were done on site and that was one of the problems. When the TM'ers moved in, they had their own mail slot in the office of the school, and they requested new couches in their room, a room mind you that they completely papered over, all doors and windows covered with opaque paper so no one could see in. They got the couches and when after a few months this lady and her supporters got their asses kicked out, the day after they left, school personnel went into the room to unpaper it - correct they didn't even bother to take it down - and lo and behold the new couches were gone. Now in the interest of fairness, maybe the school principle had gifted the couches to the TM'ers and maybe the TM'ers having had their brains all turned to mush from too many years of doing TMSP just THOUGHT the couches belonged to them and it was an honest mistake. I don't know but the couches were gone. From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Happiest school in San Francisco How would the DLF QUiet Time program "steal furniture?" A regular school teacher already employed by the school learns to ring a bell at the start and end of the Quiet TIme period. TM teachers don't teach at Quiet Time schools, but at the local TM center or at someone's home. Checking is also done at someone's home or at the local TM center. QT is just that 15 minutes at the start and end of the school day where students are told to sit quietly and not talk to each other. What opportunity would anyone from teh DLF or the local group that manages the quiet time program have to walk off with furniture? Why would they do so in the first place? [visions of aTM teacher ending his or her non-existent presnce for 15 minutes by grabbing a desk that a student is sitting in and running with it to the parking lot] Someone is having fun with you, I suspect. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : they did get kicked out of two schools in the same district - when I get time I'll tell you which ones if you like - they stole some furniture according to someone I know at one school too - yeah let 'em sue me for slander and libel over that! From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Happiest school in San Francisco TM was "booted?" Or do you mean that teh program never actually started? The DLF has limited funds and will quite cheerfully go to the next school on the list (Rio de Janeiro put all 1000 of its schools on the list a few years ago) rather than fight. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : I didn't say it was banned from Visticon Valley - there were at least 2 schools where TM was booted this year, after January. You are obsessed with and inordinately charmed by any "research" coming from the Movement. I am not, especially since most of it upon anything more than a cursory examination proves to be either bogus or deeply flawed. If TM is so good, why are so many TM'ers lives so screwed up? From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 2:51 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Happiest school in San Francisco The oped and research are from January of this year. Are you saying that TM was banned from Visitacion Valley Middle School AFTER it was found to be the happiest school in San Francisco? BTW, if TM is just so plain awful, what is your explanation for the survey results? Ongoing indoctrination via the 15 minutes morning and evening Quiet Time periods? L. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : that was before they got kicked out of two or three schools in SF - I have been in touch recently with the lady who spearheaded the effort to get them booted - she shared with me some of the Movement's skullduggery on all fronts there - maybe I'll share it when I get time one day. From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 4:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Happiest school in San Francisco Many people like to bash TM, and want to prevent its use anywhere for any reason. And yet... This opinion piece came out in January of this year: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools The company whose data is cited proudly talks about it: http://www.wested.org/using-data-to-find-the-happiest-school-in-san-francisco/ http://www.wested.org/using-data-to-find-the-happiest-school-in-san-francisco/ When certain people claim that any ole meditation can do the same, and probably better, and then work to make sure that TM can't be used in any public school, one has to wonder about them, just a tad... L
