Church service required to get a high school diploma
Filed under: Teens & tweens, Education, Religion & spirituality
Not once, not twice, but three times principal Richard Lopez sent out a notice stating that attendance at a baccalaureate service was mandatory for graduating seniors at Robertson High School in Las Vegas, New Mexico. For those not familiar with a baccalaureate (I wasn't), it is, according to wikipedia, an "event which features a speech or series of speeches given to a graduating senior class from a college or high school."So what's the big deal, you ask? Wikipedia adds that "the speeches are often, but not necessarily, of a religious nature, almost invariably Christian." Given that the ceremony was to be held at Immaculate Conception Church and that an optional "senior mass" was also promoted in the notices, I suspect the event was indeed of a religious nature. I'll also mention that Robertson is a public high school, supposedly unaffiliated with Immaculate Conception or any other church.
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