"No one is forced to attend the graduation ceremony. They can just not participate and obtain the diploma in some other fashion."
How silly.
By the same rationale, I guess high schools in Dearborn, MI can require all people who want to go to the official ceremony recite that "There is no God, but A!!! and Monutjob is his profit?!"
--- you know, because the graduation ceremony is "voluntary" and no one is forced to participate.
Schools in CA actually did this, BTW. There was a requirement for kids to go through religious sensitivity classes. One course made the kids dress like muzzies and recite that particular phrase. I recall the uproar on FR about imposition of religion.
Goose, meet gander.
A person can choose to go to the ceremony and just not say those words. (By the way, the word is spelled 'prophet' not 'profit'.)
you know, because the graduation ceremony is "voluntary" and no one is forced to participate.
Yep.
There was a requirement for kids to go through religious sensitivity classes.
Not the same thing. If there was no 'opt out' provision (and in the case you are refering to, I don't think there was), the child would flunk if he/she did not participate. If one chooses not to attend a graduation ceremony, that individual still graduates. They just get their diploma some other way.