# Can a schoolteacher be fired for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance?

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**Created:** [April 6, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-schoolteacher-be-fired-for-refusing-to-say-the-pledge-of-allegiance/535104 "2010-04-06T02:18:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-schoolteacher-be-fired-for-refusing-to-say-the-pledge-of-allegiance/535104/21 "2010-04-06T17:53:02Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> I, personally, had no problem with the pledge until they inserted “under god” some time in the 50s. I never said the pledge thereafter and a school would be on very shaky grounds if they fired me for it.

I don’t like the under god part either, but swearing loyalty to the flag bothers me too. I’d like the pledge to read thus:

\*I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, to the ideals it represents and the republic born of those ideals, and swear on my life’s blood to be true to the nation and its people. \*

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