Families Challenging Religious Influence in Delaware Schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/us/29delaware.html?ex=3D1154404800&en=

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GEORGETOWN, Del. - After her family moved to this small town 30 years ago,
Mona Dobrich grew up as the only Jew in school. Mrs. Dobrich, 39, married=

local man, bought the house behind her parents' home and brought up her t=

children as Jews.

For years, she and her daughter, Samantha, listened to Christian prayers =

public school potlucks, award dinners and parent-teacher group meetings,
she said. But at Samantha's high school graduation in June 2004, a
minister's prayer proclaiming Jesus as the only way to the truth nudged
Mrs. Dobrich to act.

"It was as if no matter how much hard work, no matter how good a person y=

are, the only way you'll ever be anything is through Jesus Christ," Mrs.
Dobrich said. "He said those words, and I saw Sam's head snap and her sta=

looking around, like, 'Where's my mom? Where's my mom?' And all I wanted =

do was run up and take her in my arms."

After the graduation, Mrs. Dobrich asked the Indian River district school
board to consider prayers that were more generic and, she said, less
exclusionary. As news of her request spread, many local Christians saw it
as an effort to limit their free exercise of religion, residents said.
Anger spilled on to talk radio, in letters to the editor and at school
board meetings attended by hundreds of people carrying signs praising
Jesus.
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256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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