court-approved settlement of over $2.6 million is being paid to 207 former Chicago Public School students who were required to participate in a Transcendental Meditation program during class.
The settlement approved by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly requires the Chicago Board of Education and the New York-based David Lynch Foundation to pay $100,000 to the lead plaintiff and from $3,000 to $9,500 each to the remaining students who filed claims.
Attorney John Mauck, partner at Mauck & Baker, said the so-called “Quiet Time” program was a horrendous violation of religious freedom.
“The David Lynch Foundation, which promotes what they call ‘Transcendental Meditation,’ which is really totally Hindu worship and Hindu meditation, worked its way into the Chicago schools for a number of years,” Mauch explained.
Mauck said students were coerced to go through a Hindu initiation ceremony with offerings to a guru and repeat mantras with the names of Hindu deities.
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