I wonder if home school parents have added the Pledge of Allegiance

[tavernier]

or prayer to their daily school schedule.

Just curious.

[lame54]

2. They changed the word flag to Trump

[tavernier]

3. The entire country is hopefully teaching at home

so I wasn’t just referring to Republicans or Trumper’s. I’m truly curious about how many people are adding one or the other or both to their daily home classroom schedule.

[lame54]

4. I doubt most people have a flag hanging in their living rooms

[theaocp]

5. Unlikely.

It’s an interesting point for sure. While I was teaching, it was a daily occurrence, but it certainly isn’t even a passing thought to me these days. More of what we can subtract from our day that takes time from actual teaching. Add it up over enough days and it becomes real.

[tavernier]

6. I guess my point is, will people do in their own homes

what they expect or desire is done in the schools.

My thought is that neither even crosses their minds.

I posted this here because it was posted on another popular site by a teacher, and it got me wondering.

[theaocp]

8. Exactly what you said.

I’d be shocked if the percent was higher than 1.

[scrabblequeen40]

7. Well now, it depends

If your goal is to "own the libs," then the answer is no. No one is looking, so you can drop the appearance of patriotism and prayerfulness. The most sincere of Xtians are lying, sinning, shits at home to their own folk. The really evil ones are also that way at home, as well as in public.

[DFW]

9. The first time my daughter went to school in the USA, she had no idea what they were saying

I had always spoken English with her here in Germany, but the words "pledge" and allegiance" just don't come up up in ordinary daily conversations with a 16 year old.

I had totally forgotten that they chant the Pledge in American schools, so I had never warned her about it. She was totally unprepared for the "strange chanting ritual" (it seemed to her) they performed at the start of every day, and thought they were chanting "I spread the peaches." All the other kids in her class did it, and she was too intimidated to admit she was the only one who had no earthly clue what they were doing. So, she finally asked me why they all got up and chanted "I spread the peaches" every morning in school, which confused me, too, until I realized what she was talking about. I asked her if they might not be saying "I pledge Allegiance?" She said no idea, what does THAT mean? Overt, exaggerated displays of nationalistic patriotism are, ever since the end of the Nazi era, frowned upon in Germany. The concept of a daily ritual repetition of allegiance to the country's flag was therefore completely alien to her.

Ever since then, it has been sort of a family inside joke with us that if some country has a ritual for which no one understands the purpose, we just say, "I spread the peaches." With us, that is second only to Aeroflot's "Russian fish."