The state-sponsored Virginia Military Institute or VMI which is a notable private military school since 1839 recognizes the cadets' needs to alleviate stress during examinations. It provides book coloring and other relaxing activities under their "stress busters" program. Yoga classes are also offered for healthy body and mind.
This is just a mere play but the activities are assisted by CEA trained educators certified through the BACCHUSTM for stress management, as well as alcohol and tobacco addiction, interpersonal relationships, bystander intervention, and the crucial suicide prevention. Trained peer educators are carefully selected through arranged interviews, seminar updates and continuously advised by the Cadet Government and the Cadet Counseling Center, according to Fox News.
Pioneering in school-year 2016-2017, the Cadet Peer Educators (CPEs) emerges with the cadet government with the guidance of the Cadet Equity Association's (CEA) Training and Education agency. During this term, peer educators still provide "stress busters" initiatives that include book coloring to cadets.
Every Reading Day of each semester, "stress busters" are conducted. Aside from yoga and the existence of book coloring stations, therapy dogs, card or game corners, plus the grab-and-go snacks are also at stake for avid cadets who are dedicated to their studies.
This Cadet Peer Educators program allows "bystander intervention" in making cadets aware of the "identify barriers, establish skills or techniques to facilitate the intervention process and, to generate attendance for the VMI - then provide the needed Lexington resources to all cadets present.
The school also made sure that their students take care of their health by posting flyers on the offered health services in bathroom stalls. A VMI alumnus and veteran expresses his gratitude to the school in finding ways to prepare the cadets for the realities of war. For $20k a year, VMI's turning teenagers into children may not sound good - but this is for their own welfare, as published by The Washington Free Beacon.
