Stop with the Mindfulness

Some schools are trying into bring in a ‘new word’: mind-ful-ness.

But schools are more like Mind-Less-Ness.  Now that makes more sense.  If schools are run by businesses then the LESS mindful the better right?  Think about it.  The better to see you, hear you, manipulate you my dear.  The less you know of yourself the more the bm (business model) can tell you to…. finish that sentence.  

Who you really are? Who are you really? 

Mindfulness becomes another trope word. Another faculty meeting topic. Think of a peppy teacher leader voice saying “We need mindfulness in the classroom…because kids are too stressed.” 

Now, let’s have meeting on top of meeting- meet the hell out of that word then practice the exact opposite. Daily.

It’s ‘mindfulness’ couched in data collecting couched in guilt and shame that you the teacher are not doing more.  Always more. 

No time for the mindful.  

It’s amazingly orchestrated.  What appears to be an emergency call for the health and wellbeing of kids turns into a rue for the wicked time-consumers of industry.