

The school addressed the video on the teacher’s personal social media account, which has since been taken down and “caused alarm and concern related to saluting the American flag,” NMUSD wrote in its statement. And he like, looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?’” she said in the video, panning the camera to the pride flag. Forte was appointed to a teaching position at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in. “I tell this kid, ‘We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.

The teacher, identified by Fox News on Saturday as Kristin Pitzen of Newport Mesa School District in Orange County, was. Since there is no American flag in the classroom, one of her students asked her where to look during the pledge of allegiance. A California school district is investigating a viral video showing a high school teacher bragging about removing the American flag from her classroom and suggesting that a student pledge allegiance to the LGBTQ flag instead. “ 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,” Pitzen said in the video posted to social media. The teacher, who should have been fired the day after. "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- Libs of Tik Tok August 27, 2021 The same week, an ignorant moron who somehow has a job teaching children posted a video on Tik Tok in which she said she encouraged students in her classroom to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag she put up in her classroom after she removed the American flag, Fox News reported.
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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." Nestled between the mountains and the sea, west of Santa Barbara, Dos Pueblos High School was established in the Goleta Valley in 1966 and serves a diverse. 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. 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." A California teacher who went viral after bragging in a TikTok video that she had taken down the American flag in her classroom because it made her feel 'uncomfortable' and suggested that. "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. The school district has allegedly launched an investigation into 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. 2 years ago on AugBy Chief Editor 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.
