Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch
It's not.

I've been though five different school systems in three different states since I started Grade School, and not one of them has forced all of its students to say the Pledge. The fact remains that if a student chooses not to say the Pledge, or any part of it, they don't have to. They have to be respectful enough to shut up while the rest of the class says it, but they can't be forced to say it. And if a student is forced to say it, they can present that issue to the School Board and probably get a teacher fired, as it's illegal to force their students to recite the Pledge.

So, again. You don't like it, sit down, shut up, don't do it. Bitching about it won't help your cause, it'll just make you look desperate and picky, so when you have something more important, your fight will be marred by the memory of the stupid crap you fought about before.
You misinterpreted what I said. I meant that public schools should not have a policy of teachers leading the Pledge, period. Indoctrination is not a good thing. You can't expect a 6 or 7-year-old kid to have the principles to go against what his teacher and friends say is right.