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> Mountain View Whisman School District made the decision at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Thursday after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the 4,500-student K-8 district was paying $189,000 in exchange for 160 meditation sessions to energy healer Alycia Diggs-Chavis.

This is a public school district so spending $189,000 of the public's tax dollars was agreed to by the school superintendent (i.e. "principal") and the school board.

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So, roughly $1200 per session? I don't know how long a typical energy healing session takes, but even if each session was 8 hours long it would still work out to an hourly rate of about $150 an hour.

Check out the bio on her website, the lady has a degree from Harvard. She knows how to work her clientele, and besides that sort of extravagance is a Veblen good, it wouldn't move off the shelf unless the price is sufficiently high.

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