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Some students at San Ramon’s California High School got quite an education this week — the kind you can’t get in the classroom.

Student leadership decided last month to discontinue playing the national anthem at rallies on campus. A local decision at a local school, right?

Not on your twilight’s last gleaming.

The students, according to the school newspaper, were responding to the objection of the NAACP over lyrics in the third verse.

You didn’t know there was a third verse of the anthem, did you?