Around the 6th grade I realized how weird the pledge was, stopped doing it, and never went back to thinking it was normal. Probably because it isn’t normal.
I think only one teacher seemed to have a problem and that was because I didn’t always sit there perfectly silent while everyone droned their allegiance to my underfunded school’s dollar store flag. Fuck me for doing stuff while you guys pray or whatever.
Same for me. I stopped pledging for a few reasons. At that age, I didn’t know that the pledge didn’t always have “under god” in it, but questioned it because of the separation of church and state, as well as freedom of religion. I also went to catholic school and got into trouble for asking questions about the priests’ vows of poverty despite the opulence of the cathedral…
I was a contrarian child who turned into a disappointed adult.
Around the 6th grade I realized how weird the pledge was, stopped doing it, and never went back to thinking it was normal. Probably because it isn’t normal.
I think only one teacher seemed to have a problem and that was because I didn’t always sit there perfectly silent while everyone droned their allegiance to my underfunded school’s dollar store flag. Fuck me for doing stuff while you guys pray or whatever.
Same for me. I stopped pledging for a few reasons. At that age, I didn’t know that the pledge didn’t always have “under god” in it, but questioned it because of the separation of church and state, as well as freedom of religion. I also went to catholic school and got into trouble for asking questions about the priests’ vows of poverty despite the opulence of the cathedral…
I was a contrarian child who turned into a disappointed adult.