I think in Australia it's once a week
EDIT: No wait, it's the national anthem. I don't remember a pledge.
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I had to pledge to the flag in Argentina, way back when I was a kid. We also stood in formation as the flag is raised and lowered each day.
We sang all kinds of anthems too, from the national anthem to the Himno a Sarmiento (some racist fuck), Himno de San Martin (cool guy), Marcha de las Malvinas (indoctrination to hate the british) and the Himno a la Bandera (flag), too many anthems to memorize and whenever they played them I just made sounds with my mouth pretending I was following the lyrics lmao.
Marcha de las Malvinas (indoctrination to hate the british)
I'm guessing it's hate the British in a "revanchist, support the Argentine military dictatorship" way, so probably nah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance is (currently) about the US one, while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_(disambiguation) has a few others.
The "under god" part was only added to it (for anticommunist reasons) in 1954.
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we had the anthem played in class every day.
It was a half-french half-english version, but on Fridays in elementary school we had the fun one that had the acapella quartet doo-wop guys recording.
In high school if you were late to school, you weren't allowed to walk to class while the anthem was playing.
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In Australia I only remember singing the national anthem at school assemblies about once a week
Yeah same. Sometimes there'd be a special assembly and we'd have to stand and sing for that too, but typically it was a once a week thing and no one was really forcing us to sing, just stand.
How many countries even have a "Pledge of Allegiance"?
Not in Wales (although the UK government has floated the idea of a pledge of allegiance a couple of times). What they did do was make everyone recite the Lord's Prayer. No-one was exempt, not the handful of Muslims, not the sizable portions of atheists, and not me with whatever made up religion I'd claimed I was in this week (I was deep in new atheism and would probably've become a misogynist if I hadn't grown up to be a woman).
In one school I did the national anthem and the Lord's prayer every day, when I moved to another school I was a little confused when we didn't do the Lord's prayer but we still sang the national anthem every day
I bet they didn't have the part of the lord's prayer about forgiving debtors
lol most local government meetings (in red counties) still start with the pledge of allegiance AND a prayer
We did the national anthem once in a while here in Canada but no, nothing like your thing
I remember doing it in elementary school. I feel like we didn't do it in high school but I can't remember now. I remember some parents actually made a big deal about making us do it, but this was before 9/11.