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The new law will allow Alabama public schools to offer yoga for students. Here, kids participate in a yoga class in Pennsylvania. Image: Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill to allow public schools to offer yoga, ending a ban that stood for nearly 30 years. Christian conservatives who back the ban said yoga would open the door for people to be converted to Hinduism.
The new law allows yoga to be offered as an elective for grades K-12. While it erases a ban that, over the years, some schools had not realized existed, it also imposes restrictions on how yoga should be taught. Students won t be allowed to say, Namaste, for instance. Meditation is not allowed.
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Originally published on May 21, 2021 11:40 am
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill to allow public schools to offer yoga, ending a ban that stood for nearly 30 years. Christian conservatives who back the ban said yoga would open the door for people to be converted to Hinduism.
The new law allows yoga to be offered as an elective, for grades K-12. While it erases a ban that, over the years, some schools had not realized existed, it also imposes restrictions on how yoga should be taught. Students won t be allowed to say Namaste, for instance. Meditation is not allowed.