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To: Constant Reader who wrote (15974)6/29/2002 3:06:02 PM
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Only people who resemble those looking under beds for Communists can seriously believe that this is state-sponsored coercion.

I would agree with you but for the fact that many kids are very impressionable and other kids are mean. Perhaps if schools presented the pledge in such a way that kids had a real choice rather than a default and an opt-out. Or classes could write their own versions as part of a civics lesson.
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