Reply #12: I didn't know they couldn't.

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I graduated less than five years ago after having attended five different high schools...each of them had a Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and most of them had prayer groups that would meet once or twice a day. Moreover, in the tragic instances when a student died, a few of the schools I went to had a school-wide prayer for the deceased.

Of course, this was in the Bible belt, so maybe they bent the rules a little, but unless the laws have changed I'm pretty sure students can have religious groups outside of school hours, and within certain parameters.

Edited to clarify: I'm pretty sure that as long as such groups are student-led, it's totally OK. When you get into groups that are led by an employee of the school, in particular a teacher or administrator, who we can assume has enough power to intimidate students into participating in activities which they may not believe in, the situation gets a little more dicey.