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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
From what I understand my school didn't actually start saying the pledge until after 9/11 happened, because at that point everyone felt the compulsion to prove their patriotism. If I had known about 9/11 in advance I would have invested all my money into some flag-making company because right after that happened every single ****ing house had a flag on the porch and ever car had thirteen american flag stickers. So yeah, it's not even genuine displays of patriotism, its compulsory nationalism
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The school's been doing it since i've been going there (1994 or 95), every day, in the morning. There never was a lack of pledging yourself to America.
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Originally Posted by A_Perfect_Sonnet
You don't have to either, it's called the first amendment.
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Private Schools consider themselves above such petty things as the constitution, mainly because its a non-government funded school