Thanks to the Oberlin Ohio School District for opposing the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. However, the Pledge should be ended completely. The Pledge was the origin of the stiff-arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party, as shown in the work of the documentarian Dr. Rex Curry (author of Pledge of Allegiance Secrets ). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html The Pledge and the Bellamys were the origin of similar dogmas, rituals, flag fanaticism and robotic chanting in worship of government there (Germany), here and elsewhere. The Pledge was written (1892) by a socialist in the nationalism movement in the USA and he wanted to use schools to create an industrial army to promote his dogma of military socialism the dogma shared by his cousin Edward Bellamy. If the schools are supposed to teach the history of the Pledge, make sure they have photos of its early straight-arm salute and that they expose the dogma that motivated Francis Bellamy and other National Socialist who promoted the Pledge. Here is such a photograph http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg and here is a video documentary about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4