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Students find their centers in meditation class

By Jennette Barnes

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 08, 2011

Meditation helps 9-year-old Mayu Joiner concentrate in school. It teaches Kate Delaney, 10, how to calm down when she feels frustrated, and prevents Shea Flanagan, also 10, from getting angry at a classmate. On Monday mornings, these Milton fourth-graders awake early and make their way to the library at Collicot Elementary School to attend a voluntary 45-minute meditation class. Andy Kelley, a Milton dad, teaches the class.

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