- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I live in California, and when you're in grade school (We didn't even do it after 5th grade) I was made to do it. For one, when you're in third grade you don't know whether you have the choice or not, and you definately don't have the right of my to disobey authority that much. Not to mention, being in highschool and understanding the conceptuals and being seven, and only just beginning to be able to grasp them, is entirely different. But, yes I was... There were times where we had teachers threaten, even the principal did it once, if we didn't say it.
Oh, and of course you can be made to do anything in a "free" country. They do many things through punishment. You can't murder someone, you can't swear in most classrooms (at least while I was in highschool you were usually sent out of the room). So yes, you can be not to do or not do something. Hell, the government even makes you pay your taxes!
[Edited on 7/1/2004 2:11:07 PM]