Not to mention that when I was growing up (in Saskatchewan), we didn’t pledge allegiance to a flag, we addressed our comments to our Father who wast in heaven (who was much more bad-ass than a mere piece of cloth).
We used to do that in Pennsylvania, but the Supreme Court put an end to that in 1963. (For the whole U.S., as a matter of fact.)
Her Majesty and God.
If you didn’t think someone was watching your little 1st grader misbehaviour, you weren’t paying attention.
I attended a Montessori school in the '70s, and we had no flags or pledges.
Apropos of nothing, we did have a Visible Man.
I assume the European beaver is furrier?
I graduated high school in 1997 in South Carolina and we did, indeed, recite the Pledge every day. Some of us snotty ones refused to say the “under God” part.
I texted my nephew just now and he says they still do it.
We also, starting in high school, had a minute of silence every morning.
I plead alignment to the Flakes of the Untitled Snakes of a Merry Cow, and to the Republicans for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, divisible, with wizardry and jugs of wine for owls.
As far as I can tell, the only difference is the shape of the face, and that two can’t interbreed. They aren’t easy for the casual observer to distinguish. I took that comment for a joke. 
The beavers in Finland and Russia are North American Beavers, oddly enough. Imported.
“jugs of wines for owls” - now that’s a pledge I could get behind!
It’s a law where I live, too. My room has both a state and a national flag.
Part of the law, however, provides that nobody can be forced to say the pledge (I think it’s vague on whether teachers can be forced to say it, and I’ve decided not to die on that hill). So every year, part of my classroom orientation is to go through the pledge with my students line-by-line, making sure they understand what it means, explaining that the “Under God” part was added during the Cold War to try to distinguish us from Godless Communists. I explain that the state law allows anyone to decline to say the pledge, and that this first-amendment right is part of our nation’s strength (yes, yes, I know that other nations also have similar rights, I’m not saying we’re better, just that it’s something cool about us), and that if anyone wants to exercise their right not to say the pledge, the rest of us will respect it, but that person needs to sit quietly while everyone does say the pledge.
This year I had one child decline to pledge for a long time. Finally he asked me, with great trepidation, “Mr. Dorkness, my family doesn’t believe in God. Can I just say the pledge but stay quiet during ‘under god’?” I was delighted to tell him “yes”: if kids are going to pledge, I want to see that level of thoughtfulness from them about what they’re saying.
My kids are in grade school. Every classroom has an American flag, no state flag, and they recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Pretty much exactly like I did in school a generation ago in a completely different part of the country.
Would the old Confederate flag count?
Of course if you’re Mississippi, you just combine the two.
There are counties with their own flags??
Defiantly not official, but the “Stars and Bars” (Flag of the Confederate States of America) is pretty much the “regional flag” of many people who consider themselves Southerners. The Gadsden Flag (rattlesnake “Don’t Tread On Me”) seems, of late, to have become associated with…well something or other, but not a legal jurisdiction.
To the OP, there was a US flag in every classroom when I was in Grade School. Not sure about High School. For sure there was a huge one in the HS gym. Grade school days always started with the pledge of allegiance, and sports games with the national anthem. Though this would have been during the cold war years.
It was the Confederate flag that made me use the word “official” to qualify it. And, really, the Confederate flag isn’t all that regional in use. I’ve seen it all over the country, and I saw it more often in Ohio than I see it in Virginia.
Go to your county government building. I bet you’ll find a county flag there.
You betthere are.
At my public middle school, 1969 - 1972, we had a flag raising *ceremony * every day. If memory serves, we all stood up within our homerooms and faced, rather than the room’s own small U.S. flag, the main flagpole in front of the school. The flag-raising would be accompanied by some bugle music which we could all hear being played outside. I’m pretty sure the music was a standard tune they play on military bases when they raise the colors.
I have two kids in the public schools. They never do the pledge. I doubt they even know the words. I have never seen the state flag in a classroom either.
Bah. You foreigners with your non-standard beavers have it easy. Here, that sort of stuff goes on your permanant record.
Holy hoisting Jesus. You guys are right.
Do we have Zip Code flags yet? I’m kind of proud of my Zip Code, you know. I’d like a flag for it — and possibly an anthem with which to sing its praises.
Anthem could be a problem, depending on your ZIP. I defy anyone to write lyrics to the anthem to 77777 (which is, incidentally, the ZIP code for Corsicana, TX) and make them scan.