The original situation about a prayer room  in  a high school was a matter of truancy:  every Friday the  teenage Muslim kids  went off to Friday noon  prayers at the local mosque,  2 blocks away, but wouldn't return to school.  The school made necessary accommodations  by adjusting the schedules to fit their prayers.  BUT THAT WAS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH!  What should have been a matter of parental discipline became an uproar over religious persecution.