[ExI] Is this really the case?

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 09:53:53 UTC 2007


On 29/06/07, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you feel about the "pledge of allegiance" in schools?  I'm not
> talking about how it end ("...one nation under god") but how it begins
> ("I pledge allegiance to the flag...")  National pride is great and
> all, but it still stinks of indoctrination to me.

Is the pledge of allegiance something all American schoolchildren have
to recite every day or is it an optional, class by class thing? If the
latter, how widespread is it?


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Stathis Papaioannou



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