Any government worker powerful enough to uphold your religious beliefs is also powerful enough to trash them. This is true whether it is a school or any other institution ( private or government).
OK...So let's look at the First Amendment problems with this case that are irresolvable. The school must make a binary decision to either allow the rosary around the neck or forbid it. Both allowing and disallowing is impossible. So....
1) The school disallows the rosary around the neck:
The youth ( and indirectly his family) are denied free expression of their syncretic Catholic belief.
**ALL** the students are taught that some religions are more favored than others. Atheistic humanist secularism has the government imprimatur and is the religion taught in all government schools, and that **certainly** is an establishment of religion problem ( establishment of atheism)!
There is a freedom to assembly problem as well because the youth with the rosary is **forced** to assemble with students and government workers with whom he and his family disagree on religious matters.
2) The government allows the rosary around the neck:
This is both an establishment of religion and free assembly problem. **All** of the students are forced to assemble with this youth are subjected to direct and indirect exposure to this youth's syncretic Catholic belief systems. ( Something that even truly Catholic parents might find objectionable.)
There is only **one** possible solution that is compatible with the First Amendment and freedom of conscience: Begin the process of privatizing all education in the nation.
I read and reread your response which I solicited. Your FIRST post and SECOND post to me came out of the blue. Reading them its hard to believe I am actually on your side.
But I asked you to comment on what I wrote SPECIFICALLY, which did not happen. Instead I receive a rant about government schools taking away or not taking away religious rights. If you would care to respond to my exact wording that you find so offensive, please do. Otherwise, you come across to me as rather frantic