And he like, looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?'" and points to the pride flag. "In the meantime, I tell this kid, ‘We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to. A California high school teacher who told her class to pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag instead of the American flag has been put on administrative leave. 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. Totally fine," she continued in the now-viral video "Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag," she said, explaining that she removed the flag during the pandemic and then whispered to the camera, "because it made me uncomfortable." She went on to say that one of her students asked where they should look during the pledge of allegiance since there is no American flag in the classroom. A California teacher who suggested that her students pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag instead of the American flag has been removed from the classroom after she boasted about her actions in a. maintained a flag shop on Polk St., a gay Mecca, in San Francisco, we made a variety of variants of the California state flag for gay customers. However, in the 11 years the Paramount Flag Co. "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. One version of a gay flag based on the California state flag is shown above. "Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the pledge of allegiance," the teacher, identified as Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa School District in Orange County, said in a video posted to social media. California teacher boasts not having American flag, tells students to pledge allegiance to gay pride flag Image: Ī California school district is investigating a teacher after she posted a video admitting that she encouraged her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag after she removed the American flag from her classroom. English teacher Kristin Pitzen is being investigated by her California school district after a TikTok video went viral of her joking with a student about pledging allegiance to the Pride flag.