Did your high school have the recitation of the Pledge of Allegience?

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Nope.

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*YOU* can't be required... but hte schools can.  In fact, in our fit of Republican feel-good politics, Minnesota passed such a law.  I don't know if people actually do it... I graduated before the whole Michele Bachmann *gays are going to hell and we have to name this road after Ronald Reagan, OMG.. i *LOVE* George W. Bush* frenzy...

We said it every morning in elementary school until 4th grade, then we started again in 5th grade.  I remember a kid in my 2nd grade class who refused to say the pledge because he was "not patriotic"... and another kid that never came to school when we had holiday parties (halloween, christmas, valentines day).. because his family wasn't religious...

And the school can't really do anything about it.

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It was never required in elementary school, but we said it.  We never sang the national anthem though.  Instead, we sang songs like "The cat came back" and "An Austrian went yodeling" or "This pretty planet"

After 9/11, the choir got together with the marching band and we formed an American flag on the football field and sang "God Bless America" that week during the football game and had a moment of silence for the victims.  There was also a moment of silence during the 1 year anniversary.

Classes pretty much ceased on 9/11... but they also did the day Paul Wellstone died and all the TVs played news coverage of it.

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This is just too weird.  I can't imagine high schoolers saying the pledge.. especially in such "liberal" strongholds like San Francisco or the Northeast.

I guess we just don't care about patriotism up here so close to Canada.. I mean, hell, we even fly their flag all over the place.