Beginning each public school day with the Pledge of Allegiance. Forty-four states have laws that require school classes to recite the Pledge or set aside time in the day for recitation. If a child attends public school from kindergarten through 12th grade, students hear that we are a nation under God 2,320 times. This forces children to choose to violate their beliefs about God to fit in with all the other students, or stand as a protester.David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association said, “No child should go to school each day to have the class declare that her/his religious beliefs are wrong in an exercise that portrays their family as less patriotic than believers.’’ Secular Coalition for America supports my claim. Every
