I never knew about this decision, but it's a good one.
True story: Since my daughter was in about second grade she seemed to understand instinctively that "forcing" children to recite the pledge of allegiance was a form of indoctrination. (Of course she didn't use those words back then.) Her reasons had to do with having kids recite words that they quite literally did not know the meaning of. To this day (she just turned 20) she talks about trying to start a movement--actually, if it were up to her it would be codified in law--to stop schools from having organized recitations of the pledge until and unless the kids are taught the meaning of the words, and then teaching them that it is voluntary to do so.
I'm looking forward to telling her about this decision.
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