A Florida school system agreed not to include prayer in graduation ceremonies thanks to FFRF’s work defending students’ First Amendment rights. (October 2025)

A Florida school system agreed not to include prayer in graduation ceremonies thanks to FFRF’s work defending students’ First Amendment rights. (October 2025)

Florida — The Hardee County (Fla.) School system agreed not to include prayer in graduation ceremonies thanks to FFRF’s work defending students’ First Amendment rights. FFRF learned that Hardee Senior High School had a practice of including pre-planned, Christian prayer at its graduation ceremonies. These prayers had been documented in YouTube videos of the 2020 and 2021 graduation ceremonies and in livestreams posted by the Hardee County School…