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Life Arts    H4'ed 6/27/16

Alarming Trends I've Noticed Teaching Yoga to Little Kids [aka the joys of stressing our kids]

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study last summer, published in The American Journal of Family Therapy,showed kids are getting three times too much homework assigned to them. This is largely due to the intense pressure teachers are under to get through stringent curriculums to meet standardized testing requirements. The Washington Postwrote about this issue citing a study last October showing how standardized tests are overwhelming our nation’s schools. The article explained that some parents are rallying against standardized tests, probably because they’re seeing the same things I’m seeing in their kids. Some people argue kids should opt out of standardized testing altogether.

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