Teacher mocks the American Flag and suggests to students they can say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag: pic.twitter. and he like, looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?'” and points to the pride flag.” A California teacher has been 'removed from the classroom' after posts on social media showed she encouraged students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride banner instead of a U.S. “In the meantime, I tell this kid, ‘We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to…. A California teacher is reportedly being investigated after she posted a now viral video explaining how she took an American flag down from her classroom and instead suggested her students pledge. “because it made me uncomfortable,” she adds.
“Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag,” she continued. Kristin Pitzen, the California schoolteacher who posted a video to social media of herself instructing students to pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag, has been removed from the classroom. “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, you don’t have to say the words So, my class decided to stand but not say the words. “Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the pledge of allegiance,” Pitzen said. Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa School District, a California teacher is reportedly under investigation from the district after her video went viral where she said she encouraged her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag and also boasted she removed the American flag from her classroom.