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Student reportedly forced into Hindu rituals at Chicago school granted class action status
Life Site News ^ | 4/25/24 | Mauck & Baker, LLC

Posted on 04/30/2024 6:08:54 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

A petition for class action status by a former Chicago Public School student, Kaya Hudgins, who alleged that her school coerced her to participate in Transcendental Meditation (TM) and Hindu practices has been granted by a federal judge in a lawsuit against the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and the David Lynch Foundation. Attorneys at Mauck & Baker, representing Kaya Hudgins, received an order from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois awarding class certification to Hudgins and her peers.

The class action lawsuit alleges that while minor students were attending certain Chicago Public Schools that chose to participate in the David Lynch Foundation “Quiet Time” program, they were required to participate in Transcendental Meditation that incorporated Hindu religious rituals, which Hudgins claims on behalf of the class is an egregious violation of their constitutional rights.

The design, implementation, and conduct of a Chicago Public Schools program, dubbed Quiet Time, was handled by the David Lynch Foundation for World Peace, an organization promoting Transcendental Meditation. As alleged in Hudgins’ first amended complaint, the Foundation worked together with Chicago Public Schools and the University of Chicago to implement the program at Chicago Public School high schools.

Hudgins, by her own declaration, was made to take part in Quiet Time.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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1 posted on 04/30/2024 6:08:54 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I guess the doctrine of “separation of church and state” would more honestly be termed “separation of Christianity and state.”


2 posted on 04/30/2024 6:12:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Indeed.


3 posted on 04/30/2024 6:32:39 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

oh yeah,, put me on that jury ...
umm, nope,
put me on that damages award team !


4 posted on 04/30/2024 6:48:36 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The kindest thing that could happen to kids in Chicago would be the utter destruction of the entire CPS system.

L


5 posted on 04/30/2024 7:04:44 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hudgins vs Hindus. Good for her. Hope the Hindus get deported.


6 posted on 04/30/2024 7:34:59 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Steely Tom

Exactly, because the state doesn’t have any problem with accommodating islam.


7 posted on 05/01/2024 12:34:06 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom
When you read paragraphs like this:

“Additionally, I, like many of my classmates, signed a nondisclosure not to tell anyone, including our parents, about the program,” added Hudgins. “My classmates and I were particularly warned by a David Lynch Foundation representative not to tell our parents if our parents were ‘religious.’”

... and then reflect that it would never ever be even remotely possible that a "program" like this would be trying to hide proselytizing kids into Christianity, it becomes very hard at least for me to conclude anything other than that this "program," and all of the people who knowingly authorized it, are totally controlled by the devil.

8 posted on 05/01/2024 12:14:09 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Campion

It’s already become blindingly obvious that most of this world is firmly in the grip of Satan and are willingly being used by him.


9 posted on 05/01/2024 12:49:32 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Steely Tom
Transcendental Meditation is NOT a Hindu ritual. Its not even any kind of ritual.

Even meditation is recommended but not obligatory and is for inner peace, like yoga is for general health. Its most certainly not a ritual.

Transcendental Meditation is more a fad of the West than it is here in India. There are also many fake yoga "gurus" in the USA who cook up their own forms of exercise and then sell it to gullible people as yoga.

10 posted on 05/02/2024 2:54:27 AM PDT by IndianChief
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