Do Danish schools have pictures of Queen Margrethe II on display? I remember the high school I visited in New Zealand only had 1 flag outside (unlike in the US where one is in every room), but there were pictures of Queen Elizabeth II scattered around.
It would be an understatement to say our German exchange students were freaked out by the Pledge (among other things). Didn’t help that this was after 9/11.
I don’t recall any pictures of monarch or PM for that matter at school (I actually attended about 6 different schools)
I also don’t remember the flag being raised on a daily basis - although I do have a vague recollection of there being a flag pole, from what I remember it was largely un-used.
There’s a history of the pledge and controversies about it here:
I tried to find some survey of what proportion of classrooms use the pledge at all. The closest that I could find gave the following statistics, although it states this in terms of percentages of students, not classrooms. It appears that it’s more common in the early years of school than in later years:
Reading through her wiki page I got the impression Hanson mostly talked about Aborigines and African immigrants rather than Asians. Is Asian immigration still a big issue in Australia? All I know about it is from Romper Stomper.
Yeah, the “asian invasion” was the great moral panic from when she started in politics back in the dark ages … err… 90’s. I think that was pre-significant-African-immigration, or at least, the early edge of the wave.
She may have updated her policies since then. For certain values of “updated”. African muslims weren’t nearly so much of a tasty target 20 years ago … then it was all about Vietnamese gang members and Chinese businessmen buying up the country (in some quarters it’s still all about Chinese businessmen buying up the country)