And he looks around and goes… oh that one?' 'In the meantime, I do have a flag you can pledge your allegiance to. 'But my kid today goes, 'Hey, it's kind of weird that we just stand and we say it to nothing,'' Pitzen said, adding that she told the student she is working on finding it. But one day, a student commented on the lack of flag. 'It used to be there, but I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable,' she says in the video. She goes on to explain that there is no American flag in the room where she teaches.

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