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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes at my kids private school. So all other countries pledge allegiance to the country they live in-as you should. Not pledging allegiance to a cansidate but the country as a whole[/quote]

No they don't. I lived in eight countries in Europe and Africa and never heard of anything remotely like the pledge.  It's a weird American invention that most other cultures find bizarre at best.[/quote]

Other countries have citizenship oaths, sure, but you only recite them when becoming a citizen for the first time. (Fun fact: the Canadian citizenship oath involves swearing loyalty to the king of England.) Having a pledge that you say on a daily basis, which the US didn't even officially adopt until the 1940s, is pretty unusual. I'd be more on board with something that's actually in our founding documents, like, everyone reciting the preamble to the Constitution.

But as to the OP, our school doesn't do it, in part, because there's no practical time/place. You'd basically need to have a homeroom in the morning with an available flag, which is more a thing in elementary school. I went to a college basketball game recently that had no flag in the arena, so we saluted like a digital projection. It was awkward.[/quote]

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