Wonder if they take the same approach to football players, cheerleaders, band members and others who travel enmasse?
A common area is not a hallway. If there was enough room for them to move "further back" it's not a hallway.
My niece experience something similar a few years ago. The high school she attended was participating in the Meet Me at the Flag Pole, which started 45 minutes before school. Some of the staff complained that a prayerful show of solidarity was some how offensive to students and teachers who were not of a like mind. The PC principal went along...
> The PC principal went along...
Then he was wrong and should have been called on it.
The right to pray doesn't include, though, the right to impede others going about their business anymore than the right to peaceably assemble gives the left wing kooks the right to shut down traffic on a busy street.