#the weird complicated reason i wasn’t saying the pledge was bc my grandparents were jehovah’s witnesses

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when i was in 5th grade i got lunch detention for not saying the pledge

I told my dad just now in the united states schools they make you stand up to do the pledge of allegiance each morning and each classroom has a flag and he was like "no way why do they do that" because they're indoctrinating the children here

I told him also about one time in hs there were these two white girls who never stood up and there was a teacher who was subbing for a couple mins for our original teacher that was late and she was really... pro American military and all that. I usually didn't stand but because of this teacher I stood since i was the only brown kid there, not putting my hand to my heart, but the other two white girls didn't stand at all. And this teacher came up and was like "at least stand up" to them and they were like "no i don't think we will...." and she SLAMMED the desk and stormed out and our original teacher who was super chill came and she was like hi what happened.

My dad when he heard this story was like "that's so weird" like yeah it was super weird.