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I fully support prayer in school as long as it is done correctly.
We used to have prayer after football/wrestling practice and before games. No one was obligated to stay or participate, it was stated multiple times they would not be condemned in any way... and for any person caught trying to shame people into it there'd be harsh penalties.
The prayers helped weave coheasiveness in the team, it brought us closer in a way those who have not experienced it simply wouldnt understand.
Baccalaureates are held by non-governmental means. They are generally held, or at least greatly supported by, private people and churches. Because of this there isn't a question of church and state as the state effectively does not exist. If it was a graduation, where attendance is pretty much required, being held in a church by a priest would cause problems.
My own experience is at my baccalaureate we were catholic and they had a pentacostal (sp?) preacher. We were in south Texas, so a good 80% of the people there were catholic. He spent his speech ranting about how "true christians do not worship the wrong things, Mary is not to be revered as a god"... if you know anything about Catholicism you'll realize how much Mary is revered. Regardless to say the Catholic church started it's own baccalaureate which draws the vast amount of attendence now.
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