"So my class decided to stand, but not say the words. A California school district says they are investigating a video that purportedly shows a teacher telling students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag. "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," Pitzen said in the viral video. In a video shared to Twitter on Friday, Pitzen described how her students have the option to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in her English class. We follow due process and our investigation continues."Īlthough the district has refrained from identifying the teacher, reports have named her as Kristin Pitzen. She continued, "The teacher is no longer in the classroom. Showing respect for our nation's flag is an important value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees," district spokeswoman Annette Franco wrote in an email. Kristin Pitzen, a California teacher has been reportedly removed from teaching after a video of her 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. "We are aware that one of our teachers posted a video on their personal social media that caused alarm and concern related to saluting the American flag. 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.
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. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District confirmed to Newsweek the teacher is no longer instructing classes while the district continues to investigate the incident. A California school district is investigating a teacher who posted a now-viral video in which she joked about telling a student that he could pledge allegiance to the Pride flag. Teacher who told students to pledge allegiance to gay pride flag has been removed from the classroom. flag, which had been missing from the classroom. A California teacher was removed from her classroom after she joked in a viral video that she told her students they could pledge allegiance to the LGBTQ pride flag instead of the American 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. A school district in California is investigating a teacher who posted a video urging her students to pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag, Fox News reported Saturday.