California Teacher Encourages Class to Pledge Allegiance to LGBT Pride Flag Instead of American Flag

California Teacher Encourages Class to Pledge Allegiance to LGBT Pride Flag Instead of American Flag
The rainbow flag is hanging next to the U.S. national flag over the entrance to the the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on June 25, 2021. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A Southern California high school teacher is under investigation after a video in which she talked about encouraging students to pledge allegiance to an LGBT pride flag went viral on social media.

In a video she posted to TikTok, Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa United School District in Orange County said she took down the U.S. flag in her classroom during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic because it “made her uncomfortable.” She then sarcastically giggled about how she'd “packed it away” but “didn’t know where.”