"Maybe she should sit with a grieving family who just lost their son or daughter to understand what the flag meant to them."Īccording to the LA Times, some parents rallied at the school, and on Monday a small cluster of mini US flags had been placed around its monument sign - as well as two Pride ones. I mean, teaching students," another added. She needs to be relieved of her access to 'indoctrinating'. "Students should never know your political views. Fire Kristen Pitzen! Children have rights!" one top comment read. Children do not need this exposure and need to be taught to respect our flag. This teacher should be fired immediately. "There shouldn't be a question in this matter. Parents didn't seem to find it funny, though of the 1,100+ comments left on the NMUSD Facebook post, pretty much every one called for her permanent removal over the vid. "In the meantime, I tell this kid, we do have a flag in the class that you can 'pledge your allegiance' to, and he looks around and goes 'Oh, that one?'" she giggles, panning to the Pride flag pinned to the classroom wall. She said a student pointed out that it was "kinda weird" that they stand and say the pledge to nothing she said she assured the student she was working on finding and replacing the US flag, but then shakes her head at the camera to suggest she in fact is not. “We take this matter with extreme seriousness and are investigating and addressing it.Confederate Flag Owner Gets Schooled by Neighborhood Child on Racism Respecting our flag is a value we instill in students and is an expectation of our staff,” the statement reads. “A personal post by a teacher about the American flag is causing alarm/concern. 28 on Twitter, Newport Mesa said that the school district is aware of the incident and is investigating. “Remember, your freedom to say what you said comes from the meaning behind the American flag backed by our constitution,” another person commented. The alleged teacher was exposed by the massively popular 'Libs of. The school district has allegedly launched an investigation into the incident. flag embodies rights that allow the teacher to express her opinions, including those against the flag. A California teacher instructed her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag after she removed the American flag from her classroom because it made her uncomfortable, according to a report. “Teachers with a sense of obligation to their calling don’t use their position of authority to teach biased personal views to their students,” one Twitter user wrote. Some praised her move, while many others argued that it’s inappropriate for a teacher to impose pro-LGBT views on students and questioned why she felt uncomfortable about having a U.S. The video, which was viewed more than 1 million times before it was removed along with all of Pitzen’s social media accounts, received polarizing comments. “I pledge allegiance to the queers,” she joyfully said to the camera, with her hand over her heart, while wearing rainbow-colored glasses, earrings, and suspenders. In an earlier video she shared on her TikTok account, Pitzen showed off a variety of flags she used to decorate her classroom in preparation for Pride Month, which was in June. “We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to,” she said in the video, shifting the camera to show the flag on the classroom wall. She then suggested that the student recite the pledge to the only flag displayed in the classroom-the LGBT pride flag. flag during the Pledge of Allegiance, she shrugged it off, saying she was “working on it,” but also silently shook her head as though she were implying otherwise. The teacher then said when one of her English class students asked about the absent U.S.
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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.” 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.
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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.