NYC school system’s Director of Mindfulness, a.k.a., yoga dude

From Gunfree Zone

Posted on May 27, 2020

You can’t have cops and firefighters but you have an Yogis

I fail to understand just how much of a piece of shit Democrat leaders can be.

It’s shocking to me that people can be such human garbage and not feel bad about it.

According to the New York Daily News:

Congress must give New York at least $61 billion in federal aid as part of the next coronavirus stimulus bill or the state will have to slash funding for schools, hospitals and first responders, Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday.

The governor delivered the dire warning during a briefing in Binghamton, saying state and local governments across New York will have no choice but to enact the “devastating” budget cuts unless federal lawmakers step in.

Once again, a Democrat governor holding critical services hostage.

Now this from the New York Post:

Yoga czar for NYC schools touts meditation, pricey Berkshires retreats

While Chancellor Richard Carranza plans to cut hundreds of millions from NYC classrooms, his little-known yoga czar — the school system’s first “Director of Mindfulness” — makes nearly $200,000 a year while organizing retreats for educrats in the Berkshires.

Barnaby Spring, the Department of Education’s chief yogi, is trying to expand yoga and meditation for students, staffers and execs, deeming the contemplative practices and body-bending postures like the Downward-Facing Dog as important as academics.

Spring’s salary is $183,781, but he collected $194,947 last year as a principal on special assignment.

One of the first steps Spring took as mindfulness director was to forge a partnership with the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which Forbes in November named among “the best meditation retreats in the world.”

Spring helped arrange for top DOE administrators, including principals, managers, superintendents and deputies, to undergo “leadership resiliency training” at the Berkshires retreat.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a yoga practitioner and ally of Watson-Harris, awarded the DOE a $111,000 grant in April 2019 to train Brooklyn educators in yoga and mindfulness.

The DOE said it spent $57,075 from that grant to send 30 administrators to Kripalu at a cost of $1,900 each. Kripalu offered free classes to 480 other staffers, officials said.

City comptroller records show DOE schools spent $101,000 at the Kripalu Center in the 2018-19 school year and $18,000 this school year.

Your kids won’t be taught math, and the police will have an hour-long response time when you call 911 but school administrators will get junkets to take a yoga retreat to one of the most exclusive luxury yoga spas in the country on the taxpayer dime.

This is on top of Cuomo killing your kid’s grandparents in a nursing home.

I wonder how all those out of state first responders who went to New York City to help, just to find out that they will have to pay New York State income tax on any salary they collected in their home state while volunteering in New York feel about the fact that they are funding bureaucrat mindfulness retreats while their fellow New York first responders get laid off?

I feel like guillotines should be working round the clock in New York.

(Every day I wait for the most recent piece of Democratic dumbassery.)