This reminds me of a year in high school where they changed the Texas Pledge. It was this stupid pledge they would send you to detention over if you didn't put your hand on your heart and recite it with everyone else, and came on directly after the pledge of allegiance to the US flag.
Anyway, they had changed it from (I think this is what it was:)
Honor the Texas flag;
I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one and indivisible.
Notice how nice and even it is there. One year, they changed it, to include just this:
Honor the Texas flag;
I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
Apparently, some group of folks thought it was a great idea to change it. I wonder who... Anyway, I got detention over it. After a while they sent me to ISS, which was horse shit so I started saying the pledge. Fortunately by the next year, my choir teacher didn't care if we said it or not, but told us if a school official looked into the window, to pretend we were saying it.
Thinking back on it: what the fuck is wrong with public schools?