“I tell this kid, ‘We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.’ And he like, looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?’” she says, pointing to the rainbow flag hanging on the classroom wall and laughing. Pitzen’s video, she says that a pupil asked her what they should do during the Pledge of Allegiance.
“I packed it away and I don’t know where, and I haven’t found it yet,” she explained while giggling. “Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag” because she had removed the Stars and Stripes from her classroom during the pandemic because “It made me uncomfortable,” she whispered in a theatrical manner. “So, my class decided to stand but not say the words. “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, don’t have to say the words.’” A Southern California public school teacher was caught admitting to encouraging her students to pledge allegiance to the LGBT pride flag as an alternative to the American flag, bragging of the indoctrination on her own TikTok account. “During third period, we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance,” Ms. The Libs of TikTok video went viral and has been viewed more than 1.6 million times.
Pitzen deleted the video but not before it had been preserved and reposted on Twitter by the “Libs of TikTok” account. Kristin Pitzen is a California teacher who revealed in a TikTok video that she suggested her students say the Pledge of Allegiance to the gay pride flag.
