Yoga classes for kids irk parents

Yoga classes for 6-7-year-olds in Paul Ecke Central Elementary School has a group of parents up in arms over the 30-minute classes being a sort of religious indoctrination and are a violation of the First Amendment.

Yoga classes for 6-7-year-olds in Paul Ecke Central Elementary School has a group of parents up in arms over the 30-minute classes being a sort of religious indoctrination and are a violation of the First Amendment.

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After the classes prompted discussion in local churches, parents said they were concerned that the exercises might nudge their children closer to Hindu beliefs. Mary Eady, the parent of a first-grader, said the classes were rooted in the deeply religious practice of Ashtanga yoga, in which physical actions are inextricable from the spiritual beliefs underlying them.