I go (went?) to a very competitive STEM magnet school. We had 5 minutes of meditation at the start of class once a week. Sometimes it was nice, other times it w

I go (went?) to a very competitive STEM magnet school. We had 5 minutes of meditation at the start of class once a week. Sometimes it was nice, other times it was actively harmful. If there was a test we had to make up for lost time by staying in during lunch/passing time. Once our teacher was giving us last minute review before a test and she had to just talk over the broadcasted meditation instructions