Six quotes that support my changes

To refresh the reader, my change(my argument) is that "mindfulness" should be incorporated in the school curriculum. 

1.   “Kindness, caring, empathy, being able to de-center from your own point of view and listen deeply to others—these are values that should be cultivated in our classrooms,” says Mark Greenberg, director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University.  (from the Barry Boyce article)
      Again, these traits would generate a kinder classroom.  I can't see how it would ever be a bad thing to have a class full of children who were able to re-center themselves at any given moment and to be able to contribute positively. 

2.   Jerry Large, Gift of Grit, says - "Grit is one of the characteristics of successful people.  Here is a list of the others:  self-control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity."  
      While Jerry Large was not on the top of my list in rankings I did agree with him about some things.
     Mindfulness does greatly contribute to self-control which I guess in turn would be part of acquiring some "grit".

3.  " Mindfulness practices can increase people’s awareness of their own emotions and their ability to regulate them."
     This statement from Barry Boyce supports my idea that the mindfulness method has the capability of providing a solid foundation for students to learn to handle their emotions and conflicts in a more constructive manner.

4.   "Another critical element that has made mindfulness appealing to educators is its effectiveness in increasing attention, “the ability to aim our cognitive capacities in one direction with as little distraction as possible.”(from Barry Boyce)
     On my worksheet I stated as  Reason #2 for why they(educators) should agree with me - there would be less class time for teachers to deal with distracting behaviors. 

5.     "He(Greenberg) and colleague Patricia Jennings have also done groundbreaking work with the Garrison Institute’s initiative on contemplation and education. The teacher training program that Jennings directs as part of the initiative recently received a second major grant from the U.S. Department of Education to study the effects of mindfulness and related practices with classroom teachers. The first grant worked with teachers in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The second grant— approximately $5 million over four years, divided among Garrison, Fordham University, and Penn State—will take the program into New York City schools.(from Barry Boyce)
     Addressing the costs of implementing this method - it seems that as positive awareness takes hold, there may be more funding available to get these programs going.

6. This is a long quote - actually an entire paragraph, from Barry Boyce.  It explains more about parental involvement in mindfulness and helping to insure success for the student as well as making for a more harmonious home life.
  "Another prevention center program focuses on improving parenting skills. Parents take a class once a week for seven weeks. They’re first asked to do short reflections on topics such as gratitude and caring. Then, the focus turns to mindfulness skills: becoming more aware of your emotions and your child’s emotions, learning how to listen deeply to your child, even when they are telling you things you’re not so happy about, trying to be low in reactivity and not so automatic in your reaction, learning to be more present in the moment. From there, the class moves into compassion skills such as remembering how difficult it was to be a teenager, to have compassion for their own parents and the struggles that they now see their parents had with them. The center recently received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to investigate the effectiveness of this program by studying 600 families over a four-year period."