I've never heard of that.

All I could find was this in Wikipedia;

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Don't worry, it's non-denominational

The fact that we exist doesn't even occur to some people, does it?

The first question I was asked by my neighbors after moving to the south was "What church do you go to?"

It's okay -- all are welcome, whether you're Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, or Methodist!

We had one of those. Also got a 'dianetics' book from some asshole relative as a graduation present. Military was there trying to sign up kids too.

There's a reason I wore a cow bell around my neck to pick up my diploma. A symbolic reason.

I thought you were referring to people holding baccalaureate degrees and I was ? Now I know what I baccalaureate ceremony is and I'm like in a different way.

I thought it was just some academic thingy for the super-smarties. Turns out it's another invention of the fucking Catholics - is there anything they don't taint with their horseshit?

The kid goes to a public school and isn't religious, and neither is the family. I feel like warning him.

I distinctly remember going to mine in the early 80s -- it was in the school auditorium, definitely on school grounds.

I want to find out if my nephew's is off campus or on.

So as it turns out his is going to be off campus and called "Senior Reflections" and they noted that it was formerly called "Baccalaureate." I will be curious to see how much religion is in it.

Well, at least times have changed a little, that they felt the need to move it and change the name. Interesting.

Oh. Damn. I thought it said "bacchanalia..."

I had no idea why the fuck we did it though. I went because my parents expected me to (they still don't know about my atheism). I just remember being bored out of my skull.

Fast forward 30ish years and they still do one where I live now.
Optional, of course. And it's not highly attended from what I understand. My daughters did NOT attend.

When I graduated six years later, it was off-site and voluntary.

This was a backward, racist, shit-hole of a small town that I guess was more progressive than others are now, at least in some ways.

The town was pretty evenly split between Catholics and Protestants though, so I think they just wanted to take the easy way out and not piss anybody off.

But we did have to attend chapel, after the coat & tie sit down dinner every Sunday night.

You were to walk directly from the dining room to the chapel... which was just across the parking lot. It became a thing to try to skip chapel. Slipping unseen away from the crowd walking to chapel was a common method, but dangerous. Saying you had to run to the bathroom 1st was a good method...but had to be timed carefully.