Mandatory prayer in schools is bad. I don't want my future Jewish kids being forced to pray to Mary Jesus. Just as you wouldn't want your kids forced to pray to Allah.
If they want to pray on their own, fine. Then the Jewish kids can recite their own proper prayers, the Hindus can say whatever they need to, and the Christians can all recite whatever they want to.
I know there are many Buchananites who would love to watch all the Jewish kids, Hindu kids, Buddhist kids, etc be forced to say a rosary, but it ain't gonna happen.
This is the fundamental problem with a public school system--forcing everyone into the same mold.
If education were privatized, as it should be, then you could send your children to a Jewish or secular school, where your own family's values would be reflected and re-inforced, and A. Pole could send his to a traditional Christian school, etc.
What we have right now is the worst of all worlds: a school system where only "values" celebrated are sexual libertinism, anti-Americanism, racial and class consciousness, and materialism.
I answered: "same way as was done before". Before the ban children were not forced to pray "to Mary Jesus". One can have simple prayer addressed to the Creator which is accpetable to Christians, Jews and Muslims. Those who wish could remain silent or to be exempt altogether.
About "dancing around it" - do you think that present worship of sexual deviations (Celebration of Diversity) is better than a prayer to God?
Send them to yeshiva.