Mountain View Whisman School District made the decision after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the 4,500-student K-8 district was paying $189,000 in exchange for 160 meditation sessions.
A Silicon Valley school district announced this week that it was pausing a contract worth tens of thousands of dollars with an 'energy healer' who was providing meditation sessions for administrators after parents protested over what they saw as a budgetary extravagance.
'I was taken aback. I was shocked by website… just as I wouldn’t invest in a chaplain for the school district, I wouldn’t invest in sound and energy healing,' said Devon Conley, the president of the Board of Trustees. Some defended the work the energy healer had done. 'Alycia is actually my coach. A few years ago I was on the verge of quitting because of the stress management,' said Principal Vern Taylor who works at Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary school.
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