The Pledge returns: My son David, who's a junior at a public high school, reported that this morning, he recited the Pledge of Allegiance in school for the first time since 8th grade. Up to that point, he'd been in Catholic schools, where the Pledge is a normal part of the day - when I taught in Catholic high schools, we always recited the Pledge first thing, and all my children have had the same experience in all of the Catholic schools they've attended. David's the first to attend a public schoool, and in neither one - here in Indiana or the one down in Florida - was the Pledge recited. That just seems very strange - the Catholic schools, rejected by the government, recite the Pledge. The public schools, (at least those with which we've been involved) supported by that same government, don't.

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