The Los Angeles Times reports that the Encinitas Union School District in California will begin requiring one day of yoga instruction per week for its students.
The program will cost $416,000 next school year. The school board had originally planned to spend $800,000 entirely on yoga, but then split those funds between yoga and enrichment teachers in other subjects.
Apparently parental backlash led to the split. “About 75 parents and children protested the yoga program outside the school board offices Tuesday afternoon, calling for the district to drop all spending on the yoga program,” Deborah Sullivan Brennan writes. But the yoga program still had sufficient parental support to get partial funding.
Now, if only there were some way parents in Encinitas could choose between yoga-free and yoga-inclusive schools …
Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
