Everyone up 'till now has very nicely kept politics out of this poll. Please continue in that vein.
Some schools we did; some not. (I attended ten schools in my childhood.) I definitely remember it from Catholic elementary school in Virginia, and in public junior high in Massachusetts.
I led the pledge of Allegiance over the school intercom every day when I was in eighth grade. Why? Cause my sister did it the year before and I couldn’t let her be better than me. Sibling rivalry can lead us into very strange behaviors.
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I refused.
At least eventually I did. I recited it along with everyone else in grade school. Some time around junior high I decided I couldn’t be arsed. It was eating into my reading time. So when everyone else stood up I ignored it. And got called to the principals office for it. Where it was explained to me that I didn’t have to say it but I had to stand up. Which sounds like a load of shit, really, but from then on I did stand up. Didn’t put my book down though.
(and for the record…it did have a bit to do with “under God”. And a bit more with a general dislike of loyalty oaths. I don’t need to pledge anything, I know George Washington knows what’s in my heart 
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Please see my post #21. If people are interested in debating the Pledge of Allegiance, please start a different thread.
We recited the pledge in grade school, but I don’t recall if it was done every day. We also had the official New York State School prayer:
Our father, we acknowledge our dependence on thee. We ask God’s blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country. Amen.
When the Supreme Court wisely declared this sort of thing unconsitutional, it was dropped. I think they quit with the everyday pledge about that time – though it would be used at assemblies.
Probably every morning in grades K-2 in Rochester, NY (although my memory’s fuzzy on that) and every morning in grades 3-12 in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Flag on the wall and all that. When I was student council governor, I occasionally would start off the pledge for the whole school while doing the morning announcements.
We had a “moment of silent reflection”, too, before the pledge, for anyone who wanted to pray or meditate or frantically finish homework during.
Every morning K-9th grade at the Baptist school I went to. Often but not always followed by a patriotic song and always followed by a prayer for the day.
The public school I went to for 10-12, I can only remember doing it in Mrs. Simpson’s English class for 10th grade.
Every day in elementary school, for sure, back in the early 60s. Heck, we both learned and recited the Lord’s Prayer back in kindergarten. I was Jewish! ;j. I didn’t realize it wasn’t a Jewish prayer until I was much older…
I think that we might have done the Pledge in Junior High, but not in high school. My attitude, really, is big deal. It’s not as if I listened to anything my teachers or administrators said. I didn’t seriously start paying attention to ideas until I was halfway through college.
Every day, K though 8th grade, Catholic schools in San Francisco and Oakland. There was an outdoor assembly after the morning recess where we said the pledge, sang the Star Spangled Banner (3 verses), said a few prayers and sang a few hymns.
Catholic high school, 9 through 12, Oakland. No pledge.
Said it every day through sixth grade. After that, it was only at major events until Wisconsin law made daily recitation of the pledge mandatory.
I got kicked out of high school for NOT saying the pledge.
I did—for the fairly brief time I was in public school, till first grade—but I didn’t say the “under God” part. (“One nation…[pause]…indivisible”) I don’t think anyone else ever noticed. It didn’t seem that big a deal to me—I didn’t believe in God, but I liked my country, so I just didn’t say that one bit.
Never.
Rural Minnesota. 1955-1966.
The Pledge should be banned from schools. Just more pseudo-patriotic bullshit.
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Please see my posts #'s21 and 25. Next time, I’m bringing out the clue stick.
This could be a debate/opinion thread, but it’s not. It’s a POLL.
My elementary and junior high school did every day. My former high school did it once a week. My current high school… well, that’s hard to explain exactly. I stopped saying it sometime in junior high I think. I never got into any trouble for it.
I know I said it in public elementary school. I don’t remember saying it in high school. This was is in CA.
They always say it before a Board of Trustees meeting on a college campus, but lately I have not been pledging.
I’m sure I said it in grades K-7.
I’m not sure about 8th grade (but that was the same school as 7th grade, so probably), and I’m pretty sure it was only at assemblies in high school.
All grades were at Catholic school.
It was recited almost every day, every year. Public school in New Jersey, graduated in 2004.
Sometime in freshman year, I realized I really didn’t care about it, personally found it a bit creepy, and stopped saying it or even standing for it. Only had occasional problems with teachers on that issue.
Thanks, This Year’s Model. I really do just mean this as a poll!