[Dianna]

Personally, I think this is a good thing. The government has no business forcing children to recite such a patently nationalistic oath anyway, and to compound it by coercing acknowlegement of a religious entity just makes it worse.

It is already settled law that schools cannot force a child to say the Pledge. This ruling demands that we can not say it in school, even voluntarily.

[saFeather]

It is already settled law that schools cannot force a child to say the Pledge. This ruling demands that we can not say it in school, even voluntarily.

Yes, it is already settled that the school cannot force recital of the Pledge.

However, you seem to not understand the actual ruling, Dianna. Any child can, outside of class time (e.g. during recess or lunch) recite the Pledge non-stop until he returns to class if he wants to and isn't disruptive about it. So can every teacher. What can't be done is school led recital of the pledge, whether the teacher and 80%, 90%, or 100% of the students in the classroom want it. There is a difference, even if you choose to ignore it.