Gage Park High School Practices Quiet Time
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At Gage Park High School in Illinois, students participate in “Quiet Time” twice a day, every day. The school is 98 percent low-income students who deal with chronic stress. Researchers are using Gage Park to determine the possible benefits.
Considered a form of meditation, students use the 40 total minutes to help de-stress from their lives, on and off the blacktop. Jose Morales, an English teacher, believes the program offers an alternative to their sometimes violent home lives. The Quiet Time program is being funded by a $300,000 grant from the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
