NYC Mayor proposes 'mindful breathing' mandate while student academic scores are underwater

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) was bashed for his pet project requiring schools to mandate "mindful breathing" exercises in the hope that it will help them feel better about their failing grades and illiteracy.

Instead of focusing on math, reading, and other academics, the city will be forced to waste between two and five-minute breathing exercises every day for children in Kindergarten through 12th grade, as a way of coping with the stress caused by crime, violence, poverty, high cost of living, deteriorating services, failed education in their schools, and forced gender confusion.

"Two to five minutes. Think about that," Adams said during a press conference. "We're not talking about hours. Two to five minutes is a game changer."

Adams obviously sees education as a game. As a non-educator, he is obviously the best person to mandate a school activity, says nobody.

Some intelligent observers have criticized the hair-brained idea, as they point out the dire lack of academic progress students have demonstrated after the two-year deprivation of decent education caused by the forced lockout of students from schools during the pandemic.

Even the Tucker Carlson-less Fox News saw Adams' idea as stupid.

Kayleigh McEnany, co-host of Fox's "Outnumbered" on Wednesday said, "I just can't get on board. I somehow made it through many academic institutions without learning about breathing. I just think this is ridiculous. I think it comes from Mayor Adams having a pet project. Apparently he showed up for the debate, and he was doing his breathing and he was calm, and his opponents looked at him, according to the New York Post and said, 'We can't beat that guy. He's too calm.'" [After which he may have let go of his bowels and bladder, but I may have him confused with some other Democrat in Washington.]

"It may work for some. Absolutely. I'm not dismissing that," McEnany continued. "I just don't think it belongs in schools where we're talking about reading and math."

It clearly doesn't belong as a mandate, especially at a time after a national report card was issued showing the reading and math scores for 13-year-olds has crashed to their lowest rate in decades after the forced lockout of students due to Covid mandates. 

Math scores hit their lowest rate since 1990, and reading scores dipped to their lowest since 2004, and continue to spiral down since the 2020 Covid lockout.

Thankfully, however, important people such as Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, AOC and Gavin Newsom were not affected by the rules that were imposed during the Covid lockdowns.

Data indicated the students tested scored an average of 256 out of 500 in reading and a 271 out of 500 in math, compared to 260 in reading and 280 in math from just three years prior.

But at least Adams is focusing on having the children breathe and contemplate their navels. 

"Look at sunset. Get water in eyes. Become enlightened."

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