In Westchester County, New York, a group of parents filed a lawsuit to protest a quasi-religious "Earth pledge" required of students, and classes involving a yogi, a telepathic psychic, a game involving witchcraft, crystal power masquerading as geology, "satanism and occultism, pagan religions and New Age spirituality." A thirteen-year-old daughter of one of the plaintiffs testified that the only thing she clearly remembered from third grade was a series of ceremonies in which students prayed to the Hindu deity Lord Ganesha with dots stuck to their foreheads.

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