Schools can't compel standing for flag

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9. Her conversational English was good, but she had never lived in the States before

And at age 16, you just don't use the words "pledge" or "allegiance" very often. She had never head them and had no idea what they meant. She just thought she had heard words she did know, and couldn't figure out why people would chant them at the beginning of the school day. For that matter, even after I explained to her what was going on, she STILL didn't understand why the ritual was performed, since no such thing is done in Germany. She figured that if people were loyal to the country where they were living and of which they were citizens, why in the world would they have to repeat it very day?