Michchamp
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Red and Guilty said:http://espn.go.com/high-school/story/_/id/5467167/mich-school-practices-11-pm-4-am/
according to this, it's public
http://www.trulia.com/schools/MI-Dearborn/Fordson_High_School/
I don't see this as an establishment of state religion.
the supreme court has defined standards to determine when something is merely an accommodation (which is constitutional), and when something crosses the line.
in this case, I don't know.
another example is allowing Amish kids to forgo public education & standards, since pretty much everything we do clashes with their religion. they have expressly ruled that the Amish can do their own thing. I thought that was a little more egregious.
really though, even if something is technically unconstitutional, as the phrase "Under God" clearly is, I feel that courts tend to look the other way as long as it's not too far outside mainstream American society, or if it is, the groups practicing it are small in number or relatively isolated.