In high school I stopped saying it. Even stopped standing for it. Ironically, it was a US History class where the teacher got pissed.

She didn’t make us recite it, but she made us stand for it.

To this day, I still fucking hate it. I hate it’s origin. It’s goal. And the red scare bullshit that forced “under God” in it. I think it’s a sign of a failed country. That a nation that requires a pledge isn’t doing enough to make people want to be patriotic on their own. That it says I follow my marching orders, whether or not I disagree. That to me, it removes agency and encouragement to dissent and work to make the country better. It reinforces there is a ruling class running the government and a serf class that does the ruling classes will.