A student is praying alone in his public school cafeteria before lunch. This activity is acceptable according to the establishment clause because

The Establishment Clause prohibits the government, including a public school, from sponsoring or pressuring students to take part in prayer. A student praying privately and alone is acting on his own, and the school is not asking him to pray. Therefore, “the school is not asking the student to pray” is the correct choice.

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