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Showing respect for our nation’s flag is an important value our District instills in our students and is an expectation of our employee,” the school district posted on Facebook. “On Friday evening, one of our teachers created a personal social media post that caused alarm and concern related to saluting the American flag. The School District is investigating the video, which was created on August 27, 2021. The School District Says ‘Showing Respect for Our Nation’s Flag Is an Important Value’ Gillingsworth” posted on TikTok, read things like, “I am usually standing always in class just naturally but I put my hands clasped down and I do not say the words. “I pledge allegiance to the queers,” she said, putting her hand over her heart.
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She showed off pride flags throughout her classroom. The start of Pride Month,” she says in that video. “She shows off all the pride flags in her classroom and says ‘I pledge allegiance to the queers,'” that caption reads.
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Libs of TikTok also posted a second video showing Pitzen wearing rainbow earrings and glasses. Pitzen giggled multiple times during the video. The video then pans to show the pride flag. He looks around and he goes, oh that one?” I’m working on it, I’ve got you.’ In the meantime, I tell this kid, I do have a flag in the class that we can pledge allegiance to. But my kid today goes, ‘It’s kind of weird that we just stand and say it to nothing.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh well, I’ve got to find it. And, um, I packed it away, and I don’t know where, and I haven’t found it yet. But I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable. Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag. So my class decided to stand but not say the words, totally fine. “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. “Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance,” the teacher says in the video. The Libs of TikTok twitter page shared the video and wrote, “Teacher mocks the American Flag and suggests to students they can say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag.” "A non-free country does, though.Teacher mocks the American Flag and suggests to students they can say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag: /1QTS5xjPln
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"A free country does not compel its citizens to pledge allegiance," one person commented. Not all the comments were negative, however, and there was a good deal of support for Pitzen and her colorful Pride pledge of allegiance. We take this matter seriously and are investigating and addressing it." The Newport-Mesa Unified School district later posted a statement to their Facebook page saying they were aware of the incident and that, "showing respect for our nation’s flag is an important value our district instills in our students and is an expectation of our employees.
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And I packed it away, but I don’t know where and I haven’t found it yet."Īnother person posted to Facebook, saying that Pitzen "is an absolute disgrace to teachers" and warned the teacher to keep her own "views and political stances out of the classroom." Herring concluded by saying if Pitzen was so "uncomfortable" that she has to "belittle children that are asking for the flag for the pledge of allegiance, then find another career that is not effecting our youth." "But I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable. "It used to be there," she said in the video, pointing to a corner of the whiteboard behind her. Except for the fact, my room does not have a flag." "So my class decided to stand but not say the words. "I always tell my class stand if you feel like, don’t stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, don’t say the words if they don’t want to," Pitzen said in the video, referring to how student take part in the pledge of allegiance in her class. Kristin Pitzen, whose now-deleted LinkedIn profile noted she teaches 11th grade English at Back Bay High School in Costa Mesa, Orange County, posted the video to her since-deleted TikTok profile where she laughingly describes the incident. ORIGINAL, 8/30/21: A schoolteacher in California has become the focus of conservative angst after she posted a video to social media which showed her telling students to pledge allegiance to a Progress Pride flag rather than the American flag, which she had earlier removed from the classroom because it made her uncomfortable.