[Nightshift]

A law requiring a recital of words

It not a law requiring each student to say the pledge. They have the option not to recite it. They are not being forced to recite it. They just don't want their child to make that choice. It would be to difficult for them to do.

[sourcery]

The law requires the teacher (a government employee) to recite the words, with the students as a captive audience. It also sets up a situation where there is strong peer/social pressure on the students to recite the pledge along with the teacher.

How is it that requiring a teacher to recite a pledge whose words strongly imply belief in a Supreme Being does not clearly constitute an "establishment of religion"?

How is it that requiring students to listen to their teacher recite a pledge whose words strongly imply belief in a Supreme Being does not clearly constitute an "establishment of religion"?

How is it that subjecting students (by force of law) to a situation where they will daily experience strong peer/social pressure to recite a pledge whose words strongly imply belief in a Supreme Being does not clearly constitute an "establishment of religion"?

When the law says you must stop at a stop sign, it means you must come to a complete stop. The Constitutional prohibition against laws that establish religion is no different. Once you start allowing the scofflaws to slide by at one mile an hour, they'll start pushing for ever greater relaxation of the restrictions. What part of "Congress shall pass no law" don't you understand?