Sorry, but the students' actions are commonplace courtesy, and the teachers actions are what are disruptive to the learning process. The teacher needs disciplining.
This sounds like the same moronic Zero Tolerance thinking that makes possession of a Tylenol the exact same thing as possession of cocaine, or of an allergy inhaler. While it is true that praying in public schools is a problem, unless every faith represented in the student body gets a turn at having their prayers represented at prayer time (most advocates of school prayer only want THEIR OWN brand of praying to be done in school, which is okay if you are of the same faith and not so great if you follow a different faith)
Saying "Bless You" or even "God Bless You" isn't a prayer, it isn't going to hurt anyone or violate anyone's rights.
Gone to the logical extreme in any direction gets you to a stupid place.
It just came to mind the success the FF is having so far in the infusion of Islam into American Education. By creating special, additional, recess periods and places for Islamic prayer, we can recruit new converts who dig the extra "time out" from boring curriculums, and secret places to smoke a joint. Once they are high they are docile and easier to convert and, if female, can cover their faces with a burka when they get a driver's license picture to make pot bust IDing much more difficult.
Someone sneezed at work today .. I thought of this article ,, and then said .. bless you.
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This a Christian custom which we will repress, with the aid of the Teacher's Union, and replace the phrase with May Allah Bless You which is free and protected speech.