This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. And I packed it away, but I don’t know where and I haven’t found it yet.' 'But I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable. 'It used to be there,' she said in the video, pointing to a corner of the whiteboard behind her. Except for the fact, my room does not have a flag.' 'So my class decided to stand but not say the words. 'I always tell my class stand if you feel like, don’t stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, don’t say the words if they don’t want to,' Pitzen said in the video, referring to how student take part in the pledge of allegiance in her class. Kristin Pitzen, whose now-deleted LinkedIn profile noted she teaches 11th grade English at Back Bay High School in Costa Mesa, Orange County, posted the video to her since-deleted TikTok profile where she laughingly describes the incident. ORIGINAL, 8/30/21: A schoolteacher in California has become the focus of conservative angst after she posted a video to social media which showed her telling students to pledge allegiance to a Progress Pride flag rather than the American flag, which she had earlier removed from the classroom because it made her uncomfortable.
