Forcing students to participate with no choice seems to me to be in conflict with freedom of assembly (or rather freedom not to assemble in this case), and also freedom of speech. Not to mention the "under god" line is a violation of religious freedoms.

If Alabama was not attached to the U.S. it would be a Third World country.

Then soon enough we can drop the hand over heart during the pledge and go back to this. [en.wikipedia.org]

It's this 'we are better than everyone' mentality that has us in this mess to start with.

It’s already done in Texas. I’m in schools quite early in the morning, I don’t participate (in a respectful way)as I’m not American. It takes but two minutes with morning announcements and the 30 sec of silence instead of the anthem.

Without the government, who would tell us what to think and say?

Fix the problem.
Vote Libertarian.