Star Spangled Banner

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in 6th grade in 1990 in MCPS, my teacher offered a candy bar to anyone who could recite The Star Spangled Banner. I think only 2 other kids besides me could do it, and it was really only because I had been to so many Orioles games.

Many other patriotic songs are taught in social studies in elementary school, just not the National Anthem. I think the Pledge of Allegiance fills th need for instilling students' daily dose of patriotism.

Elementary school in 1990? Sounds like it is the younger generation who is not learning the anthem.

Yes, I was born in 1978. Glad that is still part of the "younger generation."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the NATIONAL ANTHEM YOU MORON. It may be a crappy song, but it IS the NATIONAL ANTHEM, whether you like it as a song or not. It is one of the historic symbols of this country. Are you foreign? If so, go live someplace where you don't have what we have here. And if you are not foreign, go live in a backwards regime anyway.

Worrying about whether elementary students learn the national anthem or not is the kind of thing Kim Jong Un would do.

[Anonymous]

If it is important to you, teach your own child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it is important to you, teach your own child.

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never learned the national anthem in school - I learned the Pledge of Allegiance. So far, same with our children. They learn the national anthem from attending/watching sporting events!

Another for sporting events! And learned the Canadian anthem from hockey games (a much better sounding one IMO)

[Anonymous]

Oh Canada!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never learned the national anthem in school - I learned the Pledge of Allegiance. So far, same with our children. They learn the national anthem from attending/watching sporting events!

Another for sporting events! And learned the Canadian anthem from hockey games (a much better sounding one IMO)

+1 All summer swimmers know it because they sing it before every meet.

[Anonymous]

Unusual Question.

My husband and I are wondering why our daughter, age 9 and third grade, in a Blue Ribbon Montgomery County public school has never been taught the Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States? We both remember learning this as a child in music class.

Any insight?

The only time we hear the anthem is not in school but at sporting events (e.g., summer swimming every week and the like)

[Anonymous]

It's very hard to sing, so kids don't learn it until they're older. (The tune is actually an old British drinking song that we just slowed down a bit to make it an anthem. So that's why it's hard to sing the melody sober.)

[Anonymous]

Ramona Quimby's kindergarten class sang it every morning. She thought it was a song about a dawnzer that gives lee light. So, clearly that patriotism was driven in her at an early age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ramona Quimby's kindergarten class sang it every morning. She thought it was a song about a dawnzer that gives lee light. So, clearly that patriotism was driven in her at an early age.

In one of Beverly Cleary's autobiographies, she writes that this is what she herself actually thought, in real life.

(I'm saying this in case somebody points out that Ramona Quimby is a fictional character.)

[Anonymous]

My daughter learned it in third grade at a MoCo school, along with a bunch of other patriotic songs.