and, it's not just the state that's doing it. I came across it as part of a series of model parliaments organised by the United Church of Canada that I attended while in high school.
Example chants:
Yes yes yes we do, we've got spirit how 'bout you?
which, of course, became
Yes yes yes we do, we drink spirits how 'bout you?
There were numerous other bastardisations that I and my fellow travellers in the corrupt teenage practices of sex and drugs and rock and roll came up with...