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High school and its discontents

Rhode Island student Jessica Ahlquist was right to force Cranston High School West to take down a prayer banner--it’s just the main reason she wanted it down that’s wrong.

By Alyssa Giacobbe

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  February 26, 2012

The banner was a violation of the law even when it went up in 1963, a year after a landmark Supreme Court case ruled that establishing school prayer in public schools was unconstitutional. But constitutionality wasn’t Ahlquist’s primary argument.

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