These Children Never Get Detention at School – See Here Why

Imagine that you started working at a school, but one of the kids there is giving everyone a hard time and acts up a lot. What are you going to do in a situation like this?

The traditional access is to give the child a suspension and detention. The method were about to talk about is not connected to either one, but it is about meditation.

One would think that telling a child who has a temper, who is stressed and angry will not want to sit down for a meditation session, but as it turns out, is not a bad idea after all.

Well, this is a strategy that you must learn if you want to teach in Maryland, at the Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore. Since last year, when the school developed this program, there has not been a single student who was suspended.

This school may have just made the best move they could possibly make. They decided to focus on meditation as an alternative of the common detention we can find in any other school in order to make a bigger success out of their pupils.

So, instead of sending the children outside the classroom to stand still or to the principals office, they are being sent into the Mindful Moment Room.

This room has been a great success. The people who created it were literally left in shock as well. You would not think that small children would sit in silence to meditate, but they actually do.

The best example of it was prior to the Christmas party, where the children gave into the meditation before they were given the presents.

We all know that as little children, we could not bare to sit down while we wait for our presents, but these children managed to do so and it was a magnificent thing to see!

Thankfully, after the success of this approach, a lot of other schools are implementing this too. The UK even developed a project, Mindfulness in schools, in order to teach the teachers how to use this strategy. Similar programs are held in the United States too.

And finally, the schools are profiting from this as well. These schools that have enrolled this program have seen zero detention rates and their attendance has risen like never before! It is impossible to say whether these results come only from the Mindfulness project, but we sure like to hope that they do!