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  • Fourth-grader Miguel Ruvalcaba holds a pose during a yoga class at Capri Elementary School in Encinitas, Calif. Officials of the school district are treading softly as they pioneer what may be the first district-wide yoga program of its kind, while also trying to avoid a legal dispute about religion. (Associated Press)

    Yoga for schoolchildren raises objections

    Public school yoga instructor Katie Campbell proudly looks out at 23 first-graders as they contain their squirming in a child-friendly version of the lotus position.

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  • She said while the teacher called it an "opening sequence," the connotation was the same in her mind: Students were learning to worship the sun, which went against her Christian beliefs that only God should be worshipped.

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  • "It will change the way you think," she said. "What they are teaching is inherently spiritual, it's just inappropriate, therefore, in our public schools."

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