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Where do you live? I have a student handbook for an Elementry School in Bradenton, Florida that informs all parents that children who do not wish to participate in the Pledge, are not required to do so. From my own memory in grade school, there were children of various religious backgrounds who did not pledge, and they were never punished for it.
I teach preschool children, and we do say The Pledge every morning to the flag out of grattitude for the good in our country. If one of my children did not wish to paritcipate they would never be forced. This could be a problem in only some schools in America, and should be corrected.
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Here in Pa. I served many an I.S.S. or detention EVERY time I refused to say the pledge...then promptly got my butt whupped when I got home....in K-3rd grade I got detention AND a whupping IN school and then when I got home...of course kids don't get their butts whupped by teachers in school anymore...even in 93 when I graduated I.S.S. and detentions were still administered to those who refused to say the pledge. For those unfamilliar with I.S.S. or "In School Suspension" Basically you spend the day in a cubicle segregated from the rest of the students for the duration of your sentence.
