Second, school is about education. You learn about your country in your history and social studies classes. The practice of pledging your allegiance to a country every single day in a place of education does not make any sense.

'Who controls the past controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past.'
George Orwell '1984' (1949)
http://orwell.ru/home.htm

There is a vicious battle for control of "public education",
and it is winner take all. Education is not a technical
or neutral thing
. All education is ideological, and those
who control the institutions of compulsory education
can fill the young with their ideology and eventually
marginalize and outlaw the ideologies of their rivals.

"Use the force, Luke"
Maybe it's time to breake up the other evil empire.