Girl told she can't pray in school...is it true or a publicity stunt?

A sweet little girl and her parents are claiming a lunch room teacher told their daughter to stop praying over her lunch. According to the child, her teacher told her it was 'not good' to pray. I watched the video before reading  THE ARTICLE and my first thoughts were that someone had coached this child. The father keeps asking things like, 'and then what did you do?' The child responds after a pause as if trying to remember her lines, with what looks like rehearsed hand movements where she does the typical prayer pose. There was coaching from the mother too. I thought it was odd. Then I read that the father is accused of posting the controversial film on You Tube before even contacting the school. He denies that and says he sent emails, which the school denies. The school's staff also says none of them remember interacting with the girl this way (telling her not to pray) in any manner. I was kind of torn because the law says religion cannot be taught in public school and no one can be forced to participate in any religion in school, it does NOT say you can't pray as long as it's on your own time and as long as you're not forcing others to do it with you. Which would include lunch. I cannot imagine any teacher, (including my heathen pagan self), telling a child, at lunch, that prayer is 'not good'. It seemed really weird to me. Shame on any teacher who would do that.

Then I read the article and found out the father works for a christian publishing company. That company is pushing a book right now called 'God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values'. Are you kidding me? He's got all kinds of christian Americans shouting and fighting for their rights on websites now because of this story. He's getting a ton of attention for his company's book and I'll betcha a promotion. This whole thing made me kind of sick. Of course, it's his kid's word against the school, but, anyone with a brain can see what happened here. Shame on these parents for using their innocent child this way. The book deal and the fact that he put the whole thing on You Tube is too much of a coincidence to ignore. Children that age believe anything their parents tell them and only want to please parents. It's not very christian behavior and puts his whole religion in a bad light, if you ask me.