does anyone recite the Pledge of Allegiance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE the pledge of allegiance. Reciting it shows loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America. If you don’t want to recite it. Then don’t. I am proud to be an American. That’s why I live in the United States. You are free to move to another country if you don’t like it here.

+ one million. I'm making sure my child understand how to be a true patriot...to understand that the Pledge is not to a dictator, monarch, or party but to the flag that represents America. We teach them ALL of American history; the bad but also the good. It's weird that some people solely focus on America's faults; the philosophical equivalent to first world problems.

[Anonymous]

Kids are forced at a very young age to declare this oath to a piece of cloth without having any idea of what they are saying. The pledge has very little meaning when it is used in that way. Saying it does not make a person more or less patriotic, no matter how many times the words are uttered. The kids understand that. The oath is meaningless when it's coerced. Let them have their freedom to choose to say it.

[Anonymous]

I went to an assembly at my child’s school recently, and they said the pledge WITH NO FLAG ANYWHERE IN SIGHT. It was bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are forced at a very young age to declare this oath to a piece of cloth without having any idea of what they are saying. The pledge has very little meaning when it is used in that way. Saying it does not make a person more or less patriotic, no matter how many times the words are uttered. The kids understand that. The oath is meaningless when it's coerced. Let them have their freedom to choose to say it.

Like the Lord's Prayer or Boy Scouts Motto, it's a statement of values. You don't need a PhD to absorb those concepts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was working at <50 white high nschool school yesterday, and not a single student recite the pledge, they stood up but not a single student recite the pledge. (WORK AS a sub)
I wanted to say something, but I know the moment I say something say I'll be called a Karen.

They are exercising their rights. Why on earth would you “say something?” If you don’t want to be called a Karen, have you tried not being one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did you want to say?

Who cares?

Also what does race have to do with it?

I want them to recite the Pledge, I was the only one in the classroom that did.

I want a pony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:as a HS teacher in a predominantly white school, this isn't a race thing. most of my students don't say it either.

Wish we could make them, its sad no one has AMERICAN PRADE anymore

You would be violating the United States Constitution by doing that. That’s not “AMERICAN PRADE.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE the pledge of allegiance. Reciting it shows loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America. If you don’t want to recite it. Then don’t. I am proud to be an American. That’s why I live in the United States. You are free to move to another country if you don’t like it here.

No, thanks. We’ll exercise our right to stay here, work for change and not say the pledge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE the pledge of allegiance. Reciting it shows loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America. If you don’t want to recite it. Then don’t. I am proud to be an American. That’s why I live in the United States. You are free to move to another country if you don’t like it here.

back when I was in school my teachers would make us say it!!

Are you a troll or just ignorant? READ THE SUPREME COURT DECISION and take a seat.

[Anonymous]

I like the Pledge and National Anthem. It’s great to have traditions. Nothing wrong. We should act more unifying as a nation. Kids do get lazy and tired in high school but then come around as adults with kids again.

[Anonymous]

Yes!

[Anonymous]

I teach high school. No they don’t, nor do I. You should ask yourself why you feel so compelled to recite it and why you’re bothered they don’t. It is a very strange tradition

[Anonymous]

Is not even done in Europe.

[Anonymous]

So freedom loving Americans stop loving freedom when it comes to my freedom to abstain from reciting the pledge? I see how your freedom works…

[Anonymous]

I sub too OP but in mostly white, UMC public schools. No one says the pledge past elementary school. Its not "cool."