--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Not many times, but enough, I was a substitute teacher at MSAE, and I never had a classroom do group meditation in any manner that even remotely looks like "quiet time." > > I don't know if they've finally "fixed this" at MSAE, but when I was there, kids would be fucking off all during group meditation -- to the point of laughing aloud, never closing their eyes, tossing notes to each other, speaking to each other, and being haughty about it when I made eye contact with them to "brow beat them into closing their eyes.">>
It sounds like teaching is not your dharma. I substitute taught in public schools (midldle and high school) and at MSAE. I almost never had any kid disrupt the class in any significant way. The old cliche about kids getting carzy with substitute teachers just did not appply in my case. I was kindof surprised by that in the beginning, but then it kept happening in different schools in different parts of the country. The MSAE kids were just as well behaved as the public school kids with the wide range of diverse personlalities that I love so much about teaching. OffWorld
