The J-Ws actually won several court decisions starting in the 1930s that allowed them to opt out of the rather totalitarian concept of forcing children to recite what is essentially a utopian socialist poem.
Ok on the JW’s but I disagree on the Pledge of Allegiance as a totalitarian poem. What I do agree on is the constant daily recitation of it. Once you pledge allegiance to something it’s done. You don’t have to keep re-allegiancing (my invented word) yourself on a daily basis because somehow overnight you’d loose it.