Haven't asked anything "controversial " in a while so... Do you think the pledge of allegiance should be discontinued in schools? Why or why not?

One of my core education classes for college is going a debate on this topic right now on whether or not schools should or shouldn't discontinue making students participate in the pledge of allegiance every morning and why. Since I'm allowed to research and ask opinions from others I decided why not ask on here since most people are pretty blunt on their views.
I'm not giving my opinion on this, only because I'm I'm supposed to be a neutral party but would really appreciate to know others thoughts of this and why they feel the way they do about it.

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indyjoe · 56-60, M

No I do not. We may be a nation made up of many different cultures (we're called "the great melting pot" as you know), and we have not had an exactly spotless past...but we are still the United States of America and we should be loyal to our country and pledge our allegiance to it. If we do away with that then we have nothing and we no longer have the freedom and united front to work with to work out the problems we are facing.