Okay, so I went to two schools (or well, districts, technically-). Both of them the pledge was REQUIRED at, and the first I actually nearly got kicked out of for not saying it. I went to another school, in a different, more left leaning district, where the pledge was said every morning but I was by no means required to say it and neither was anyone else. Sometimes people might say it, other times my whole class would sit down, and that system actually worked way better than it being required, so idk. My parents were always fairly liberal (well my mom was at least, although she has her own shit still, and it took my dad a while to come around but after I came out to him he got better) nd my mom never made me say the pledge, and personally I think that the pledge is okay? But I don’t want to make anyone say it, and I certainly never will if I can help it.