2tadpoles

It is my (not so humble) opinion that schools are mostly about behavior modification, not education. They teach you what to think, not how to think.

Adding the pledge into this day-to-day numbing of the mind is just one more way to kill individual thought.

Personally, I don't think children should be made to recite any sort of oath. A pledge or oath should be voluntary. Funny how almost nobody says the pledge except for school-children.