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.

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

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.

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...

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