When the principal comes over the intercom and say please stand for the pledge of alligance and everyone in the class stands. When you are the minority in the class, let's say a Jahovah's Witness....it's hard for a child to refuse to do something that all the other kids do...maybe it would be hard for a child to bring something like their religion up if the teacher didn't know these things.
I'm not say that children are being physically forced to participate in the pleadge of alligance, I'm saying that people should be sensitive in the fact that there are other types of religions that people believe in this country.
And yes a lot of people do take the pledge as a pride type of thing for the country, which I even feel that way to a certain extent, but I am sensitive to the fact that some people do not believe in God or practice a different religion and believe that the freedoms that we have in this country should require that every religion should be represented in schools if the pledge is to remain.