While there certainly are some in the community who were looking forward to a state vs. religion showdown in the courtroom, the Hall County School system’s decision to settle the lawsuit over prayer in the athletic program at Chestatee High School was the right choice to make. In the end, the school system agreed to do more to educate system personnel about what is and what is not constitutional behavior, and the system’s insurance carrier agreed to pay some $22,500 in legal fees incurred by the American Humanist Association in filing the lawsuit last year. That’s a positive outcome to a darkly negative cloud that had hovered over the county’s schools for the second half of the last school year.