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MandJZ
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Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I am not American and therefore did not feel it was my place to become involved in the other thread. I am a Canadian, married to an American and living and working in New York.
So I was reading the other thread (very interesting) and got a bit confused. I have worked in 3 different schools in NYC since living here and I'm fairly certain the Pledge was not recited in ANY of them at all during the day? I'm not a classroom teacher, I'm a social worker, but I am in and out of the classroom and do see students during the first period of the day and I have never seen or heard the recitation of the Pledge in the schools I have worked in.
Is it a requirement? Is it something that is happening quickly in the morning and I'm just missing it?
I asked DH if he recited the Pledge in school every morning when he was younger and he shrugged and said he doesn't remember. Would someone mind shedding some light on this for me...the tone of the other thread implied to me that this was something mandatory that happens in all schools every morning and yet I can't remember seeing it or even hearing it referenced at all in 3 different school settings (2 public, 1 private).
Just something I was curious about!
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I am old, but when I was in school K-12, public, we said it every morning. We were told to stand for the pledge. If boys had hats on them removed them. In elementary school, each teacher did it in the morning. In JHS and HS it was done over the PA. If you were in the hall, you stopped walking and still put your hand over your heart and said it. I don't know what goes on in the classrooms today, but I do know when I go to niece and nephew's school concerts we stand and say it.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:15 PM |
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munchkinbugs
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
We used to say it every morning during announcements/home room.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:36 PM |
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cateyemm
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
The teachers probably know better but I think its required by the doe. That said, in dhs school, the principal does not enforce it, so they dont say it, even though they are supposed to.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:40 PM |
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sarahbelle
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I teach in NYC. We say the pledge and sing my country tis of thee each morning as a school. It's part of the principal's morning announcements.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:41 PM |
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twicethefun
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Every NYC and Long Island Public school I have been in, does do the pledge.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:43 PM |
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Sweetlax22
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
In my NYC school it is done every morning over annoucments by a student or a group of students, they love doing this and can't wait for their turn.
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| Posted 9/11/11 12:45 PM |
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MandJZ
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
This is so interesting that my experience has been in schools where it isn't recited. Granted, all 3 schools I have worked in don't/didn't do a morning announcement over the PA system so that may be part of it I guess. I think I'm going to ask someone tomorrow at work about it.
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Hofstra26
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Growing up on Long Island, we had to stand and recite the Pledge every day AND sing My Country Tis of Thee. When I became an elementary teacher I was in schools on LI as well as Queens and the Pledge was part of the morning announcements first thing in the morning. The principal or a student would lead the Pledge over the PA system in the school.
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| Posted 9/11/11 1:38 PM |
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MrsH
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Posted by MandJZ
This is so interesting that my experience has been in schools where it isn't recited. Granted, all 3 schools I have worked in don't/didn't do a morning announcement over the PA system so that may be part of it I guess. I think I'm going to ask someone tomorrow at work about it.
If they don't do announcements over the loudspeaker, it might be that the classes are reciting the pledge with their teachers on their own. If you are not in a classroom at that time, you wouldn't know that they are doing it. I know our school does the pledge before first period starts. I think it is mandated that schools recite the pledge. I know that even when my principal has meetings, such as PTA in the evening, it is required.
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nancy6485
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I said it everyday while in school. My son says t every morning in school also. I'm glad they do
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| Posted 9/11/11 3:31 PM |
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
We said it every day in school. And I am now an NYC teacher and we say it daily as well. In fact, I think we weren't doing it but began after 9/11.
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| Posted 9/11/11 4:47 PM |
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MandJZ
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Posted by MrsH
Posted by MandJZ
This is so interesting that my experience has been in schools where it isn't recited. Granted, all 3 schools I have worked in don't/didn't do a morning announcement over the PA system so that may be part of it I guess. I think I'm going to ask someone tomorrow at work about it.
If they don't do announcements over the loudspeaker, it might be that the classes are reciting the pledge with their teachers on their own. If you are not in a classroom at that time, you wouldn't know that they are doing it. I know our school does the pledge before first period starts. I think it is mandated that schools recite the pledge. I know that even when my principal has meetings, such as PTA in the evening, it is required.
This is what I'm thinking. I am really curious so I may try to sit in on a first period class to see. Thanks for all the responses!
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DiamondGirl
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
In the MS I work in they do. They recite it in the elem schools in my district as well. It is said during morning announcements. When I worked in a HS they did not recite the pledge, also did not have morning announcements which is probably why.
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tink23
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
We said it everyday from grades K-12. I know that they don't do it in my DH's middle school in the city.
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| Posted 9/11/11 7:02 PM |
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emilylives
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I went to private school, and we never said it.
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| Posted 9/11/11 7:26 PM |
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Christine
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I went to parochial elementary & high school. I know we said it in elementary school but I don't recall saying it in high school.
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| Posted 9/11/11 8:08 PM |
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AngnShaun
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Posted by BaseballWidow
I am old, but when I was in school K-12, public, we said it every morning. We were told to stand for the pledge. If boys had hats on them removed them. In elementary school, each teacher did it in the morning. In JHS and HS it was done over the PA. If you were in the hall, you stopped walking and still put your hand over your heart and said it. I don't know what goes on in the classrooms today, but I do know when I go to niece and nephew's school concerts we stand and say it.
Ditto.... we said it first thing in the morning!
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WhatNow
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
My son is now in a NYC public school and I often volunteer in his classroom. As a naturalized citizen of the USA, it makes me immensely proud to watch my son put his little arm on this heart and pledge allegiance to his country every morning! 
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| Posted 9/11/11 8:41 PM |
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I grew up on LI and I also did the pledge and sand My COuntry Tis of Thee every morning. Now I teach on LI and we say the pledge every morning.
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Went ot school on LI and currently teach on LI, we say the pledge every morning.
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ElizaRags35
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I remember in JHS and possibly HS that it was said over the loudspeaker during morning announcements.
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jax1
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
I work in a NYC public middle school and every morning we have morning annoucements and say the pledge together. I worked in another NYC public school and it was the same.
I went to public school (LI) and said the pledge every day in the morning from K-12.
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| Posted 9/11/11 9:32 PM |
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LightUpOurLife
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
My DH teaches in a city school. They do not say the pledge.
ETA He teaches at a school that has deaf and hard of hearing students. So I've NEVER heard an announcement on a loud speaker there.
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TheDivineMrsM
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Re: Spin-off to Pledge of Allegiance (totally non-drama, just a question I promise!)
Posted by DiamondGirl
In the MS I work in they do. They recite it in the elem schools in my district as well. It is said during morning announcements. When I worked in a HS they did not recite the pledge, also did not have morning announcements which is probably why.
Same. I worked in two NYC HS's, and never did it. Neither had a homeroom period or morning announcements.
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