Not like anyone is surprised by this.
Via SF Chronicle:
The Pledge of Allegiance, what many would consider a Norman Rockwell requirement of public education, is no longer a given in an untold number of California classrooms.
And not only do many local schoolkids skip the pledge these days, many don’t even know what it is.
Turns out, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has become passe, considered by some to be an outdated and unnecessary ritual with a constitutionally questionable religious reference and false promises of liberty and justice for all.
Others skip it just to save time.
At Alvarado Elementary in San Francisco, students used to recite the pledge when there were daily morning assemblies. Now they don’t.
Todd David’s fifth-grade son knows it in Spanish and English. His second-grade daughter doesn’t. “When I said it to her, she said, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, Dad.’ ”
David, however, just shrugged.
“Of all the things I want my children to learn at school, I’m kind of indifferent about the Pledge of Allegiance,” he said. “Is San Francisco any less patriotic because kids don’t know the Pledge of Allegiance? No.”