State-funded schools do not have the freedom to choose anything. They have to follow the law that has been duly passed by the legislature.
Also this Clymer should remember just who really pays his salary, i.e. the State's taxpayers. If the taxpayers had a problem with the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, it would never have become law in the first place.
AMEN. And I admire your FReep-handle.
Poetically fitting.
Mrs Kus