Yes, a U.S. Supreme Court case says that people cannot be forced to chant
the pledge, despite what various idiotic state laws state. No school teaches
that. And when you are 5 and the teacher says stand and recite this, and
everyone else does, that's coerced. And it is creepy. It is disgusting.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html
In opposing government's schools, Jacob G. Hornberger writes: With its
coerced system of regimentation and conformity, along with its use of
Ritalin on those who resist such aberrance, the sooner we rid the country of
this socialistic scourge, the better.
As I stated in my article some 20 years ago: "What is the answer to
socialism in public schools? Freedom! Why not separate school and state in
the same way that our ancestors separated church and state?"
Hornberger's article is entitled "Milton Friedman Was Wrong on Vouchers."
For more on that topic see http://rexcurry.net/schoolsmain.html