Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro

Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @07:54AM (#11526301)

That whole national anthem (or pledge of allegiance) thing doesn't happen in most American schools, so many of us Americans can't imagine it either. With even northern states (including California) jumping into this, it doesn't seem like the country I grew up in.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @08:09AM (#11526366)

I dunno, I remember doing the pledge in my schools, and I'm from a hippy-dippy college town where the 60s never ended.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @08:20AM (#11526405)

I went to middle and high school in Mississippi (!!) and Washington state (late 80s early 90s), never did the national anthem or pledge except at special events like football games.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by drumdance on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:55AM (#11526927)

I grew up in Georgia and we said the pledge every morning from first grade all the way through high school. There was also a public prayer before football games. This was in the seventies and eighties in a relatively rural community about an hour from Atlanta.

I'm pretty sure they still do the pledge but may have done away with the prayer.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @08:53AM (#11526562)

Wow, that's really unexpected. I thought every school in the country started the day with the pledge.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by JBReefer on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:23AM (#11526720)

I've never done the pledge in school, ever. Football games? Sure. Never in class.

Ironically, this belief seems to be the result of ... propaganda.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by soundwave106 on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:36AM (#11527251)

Not propaganda. I'm sure it depends on the state and/or school district.

Here's the law for Florida. The morning pledge recitation is pretty clearly spelled out. It is up to the school district to implement it or not, of course. (The district I went to chose to.)

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:06AM (#11526632)

At that time no. Now? I'm not so sure. It is definitely something that not every American has been exposed to.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by fbonetti on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:35PM (#11528131)

I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and I said the pledge every morning, from from kindergarten to high school. I honestly thought every student in the US did the same.

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Re:Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @03:08PM (#11529351)

Nope, definitely not. Seems to be very spotty.

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