Does anyone actually think that having an NEA stooge lead a bunch of half-asleep kids through a few words every morning does the slightest thing to make kids any more patriotic or to make an unpatriotic kid suddenly patriotic? Things like the pledge don’t do a thing to inculcate real patriotism and the greatest patriots our nation has ever known came about long before it was invented. Having to sign a slip is stupid but I wouldn’t cry if student didn’t have to blurt out a chant written by a socialist five days a week. Leave it up to the schools and to the teachers.
I have in my mind’s eye a picture of a class of students thirty-five strong saying the pledge of allegiance. I can see the room, the flag, the teacher. I can remember the time, during WWII, after one of the students announced a family member had been killed. I’m afraid you are too cynical by far.