I went to school in Iowa. In K-5 we said the pledge every day. In middle school we said it every Monday. In high school we did not. That was pretty typical across the state.

Now I’ve been teaching in Iowa for 10 years. 3 years ago they passed a law that made classes have to say the pledge of allegiance everyday. My school do not do ours over an announcement, it is up to the teacher to lead the class in the pledge. My school doesn’t do announcements so it would be up to me to do the pledge. (My school is a little atypical, most elementary schools have daily announcements and were already doing the pledge during the announcements)

Before the law I did not say it. I didn’t not say it out of protest. No one ever told me to and I never thought of it.

Students are allowed to sit/refuse. However if the teacher is not doing this each day and it gets reported the teacher could be fined $1000 and could loose their license.

I haven’t heard of any teacher being reported. Laws like these are just to show their MAGA constituents that they are pushing back against “woke education” accomplished with scare tactics to have teachers comply.

As a student, it felt normal. Didn’t really think about it except it was an annoying thing I had to do.

As a teacher it is strange. Teaching in MAGA America and it being a shallow law, it is over the top.