A question for my American sisters/brothers

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I have tried Googling but don’t get any definitive answers to this question - - - - - - Do American children say the Pledge of Allegiance every day in schools?

If they do , at what ages do they do it ?
 
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I have tried Googling but don’t get any definitive answers to this question - - - - - - Do American children say the Pledge of Allegiance every day in schools?

If they do , at what ages do they do it ?
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It varies by state and sometimes locality. I teach in North Carolina, where it is mandated by state law. Exceptions are made for religious and perhaps other reasons. They start in Kindergarten
 
We used to when I was young but they stopped in the 90’s.
 
In addition to its varying by state and locality, it is primarily an activity done in public schools.

Children in Catholic schools or other religious schools typically start their day with a prayer, not the Pledge.
 
JonNC is correct; it varies. Even though I believe they are supposed to, I don’t think it happens consistently in many places and then only in the elementary grades. I don’t think it happens often here in the local public schools, but at the local private Christian school they start every day with the pledge and prayers.

Growing up, I said it every day, until a certain grade we only said it on Monday mornings. I don’t remember when that was, though. And by junior high it was very rare.
 
My children went to Catholic school. The said the Pledge every day during home room. Almost every class also began with a prayer. Each teacher decided what was said.
 
I was homeschooled and we never did it. Mainly because the school-day could get hectic. We did memorize it as part of school though.
 
In public preschool, I don’t remember.
In Catholic grade school, we said a prayer and the pledge.
In public middle school, wesaid the pledge.
In public high school, our announcements had a time for the pledge but we sat during that time. (You could stand and say it if you wanted, but nobody really did.)
 
Sometimes it even matters if you live inside or outside the city limits. my granson attended a school outside the city limits from kindergarten through the fifth grade and they said the Pledge of
Allegiance every morning.

However, the kids attending school in the
city limits did not.
 
In the schools where I taught, they did not say the pledge starting about 1999. Middle and high school students usually opted out.
 
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Not in public schools in Michigan. We no longer have flags in every classroom, either. (We are supposed to, the it’s not economically possible.)
 
When I was a sprout we said it right after the “Lord’s Prayer” of course this was in the 1950s.
 
I come from Hawaii and they used to do it there but not anymore. At least not in the public schools.
 
More that I’m an adult I wonder what the value of it was other than learning the pledge of allegiance. That’s not a political statement, but an honest question about how school attempts to shape us vs the actual outcomes.
 
It does vary. In the US, public schools are governed by local School Boards. There is not a “national standard”.
 
I start with prayer, then the pledge. I’m at a Catholic high school.
 
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