Singing the National Anthem in school

I'd be interested in knowing if there are schools that make (or used to make) students sing the national anthem. Please specify which country you're from.

Here in Canada I've never had to, but one of my high school teachers said he'd worked in a part of the country where they sang the national anthem every morning and that they had a portrait of the Queen to sing to in the back of the class. That would have been in the 80's. So obviously I'm interested in knowing if that was true or if he was embellishing a little.

My apologies if this is not strictly political but I thought this board fit best.

I went to a semi-private french immersion school in canada. Every morning they had someone sing the anthem over the PA system. It being a french immersion school, even verses were english and odd verses were in french.