But rather than detention or the principal's office, his teacher sent him here, to Robert W. Coleman Elementary School's meditation room.
And at Coleman -- just blocks from where people took to the streets after the death of Freddie Gray last year -- more than 80% of students qualify for free or reduced lunches.
Staffers employed with the Holistic Life Foundation, the nonprofit behind Coleman's Mindful Moment Room, say they occasionally work with students whose parents are incarcerated.
Students who are disruptive in class are sent to the Mindful Moment Room by their teachers.
Before the Mindful Moment Room, students who got into trouble were sent to detention or to the principal's office.
All children at Coleman start and end their school
And at Coleman -- just blocks from where people took to the streets after the death of Freddie Gray last year -- more than 80% of students qualify for free or reduced lunches.
Staffers employed with the Holistic Life Foundation, the nonprofit behind Coleman's Mindful Moment Room, say they occasionally work with students whose parents are incarcerated.
Students who are disruptive in class are sent to the Mindful Moment Room by their teachers.
Before the Mindful Moment Room, students who got into trouble were sent to detention or to the principal's office.
All children at Coleman start and end their school