When one of her students asked what they should do during the Pledge of Allegiance, she replied, "In the meantime, I tell this kid, 'We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.' And he like, looks around and goes, 'Oh, that one?'" She then pointed to the gay pride flag hanging on the wall of the classroom. "I packed it away and I don't know where, and I haven't found it yet," she said while giggling. Pitzen explained that she removed the American flag from her classroom during the pandemic because "it made me uncomfortable."
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"Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag."
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"So, my class decided to stand but not say the words. "I always tell my class, 'Stand if you feel like it, don't stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, don't have to say the words.'"
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"OK, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance," Pitzen says in the video. The video went viral and has been viewed over 1.6 million times, and the tweet has nearly 6,000 Likes. Pitzen recently deleted her TikTok account, but it was too late, as the Twitter account saved the controversial video and posted it online.