Actually not Professor. The lesson here is that local issues can be decided by locals without the intervention of federal courts and their non limited government supporters.
Last week it was divulged that Thomas More shopped around the country to find a district which would adopt the Of Pandas and People curriculum so they could fight a court case. This wasn't the ACLU looking for a battle, it was Thomas More (who, having been set up as a Catholic law center, should know better than to get into bed with Biblical literalists). They pushed Dover into a course of action that led to an inevitable lawsuit; and given the narrow margin of victory, I have to conclude that the School Board wouldn't have lost unless the suit was filed.