For elementary schoolers in California's Lamont School District, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance everyday is a bilingual task, KGET-TV reports.

For the city, which is 97 percent Hispanic, doing so has been a tradition since 2002, but not everyone has been happy about it.

"One of the issues with it being in Spanish is that not everyone got a chance to voice their opinion doing it that way," teacher Barry Champagne toldNBC affiliate KGET-TV. "Every time it was brought up for discussion, it was set aside and we never got a chance to vote for it or even discuss it any further."

Fred Molina, principal of Alicante School, told the station that it's an important way to include all cultures.

"I think you offer a great way for students to feel included, and it's the Pledge of Allegiance, no greater honor than to be able to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a second language," Molina told KGET-TV.

Here's the Pledge in Spanish, courtesy of Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed's website:

"Yo prometo lealtad a la bandera / de los estados Unidos de America, / y a la Republica que representa, / una Nacion bajo Dios, / entera, / con libertad y justicia para todos."