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A school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.

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Summary
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56% Informative

Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore , Maryland , has a meditation room for kids.

Students are encouraged to sit in the room and meditate, helping them calm down and re-center.

Science is starting to build up a really interesting picture of how awesome meditation can be.

Meditation and mindfulness are pretty interesting, scientifically.

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VR Score

48

Informative language

44

Neutral language

20

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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