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I don't know if that's a commonplace thing in the US, but it seems kind of excessive. Forcing kids to recite a pledge of allegiance in the name of freedom is painfully ironic. I'm not even sure why the pledge is a thing for anyone other than new citizens. If it were the national anthem, that would be a different story. I don't really see anything strange or wrong about singing/listening to the national anthem at the start of each day.

Here in Alberta, the issue of the anthem being played depends on the school. In elementary school we had to sing the anthem every Monday. In middle school, it played every morning and we just had to stand for it. In high school it also played every morning but we remained seated, which was kind of weird.

I'm a teacher at a K to 12 school now, and at my school students stand for the anthem every morning, much like it was at my middle school. I think the elementary teachers get their classes to occasionally sing the anthem, but I'm a high school teacher so I'm on the other side of the building and have no way of knowing without asking.
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