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Students in Miami-Dade County could be breathing a little less easy under a proposal to do away with a pause in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The new rule, proposed by longtime school board member G. Holmes Braddock, would require students to say the pledge's "one nation under God" in one breath. Students in the 347,000-student school system--like most--pause between "one nation" and "under God," but Mr. Holmes says they've got it all wrong.

"There's no pause there," he argued. "My point is, if you're going to teach it, teach it properly. If Congress wanted a pause, they would have...