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'It's about damn time': Bryan Ruby becomes only active pro baseball player to be out as gay Pitzen, an English teacher, initially posted the video on her own TikTok account, It has since been deleted. We follow due process and our investigation continues." The teacher is no longer in the classroom. 16, 2019, the Justice Department brief filed telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing workers for being transgender.California teacher Kristin Pitzen was removed from teaching in her classroom as an investigation begins into a viral TikTok video where she joked about telling a student to pledging allegiance to a LGBTQ Pride flag rather than to the American flag.Īnnette Franco, a spokesperson for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, told the Orange County Register: "Showing respect for our nation's flag is an important value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees. Title image: In this June 26, 2015, file photo, a crowd celebrates outside of the Supreme Court in Washington after the court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the U.S. Those reciting the pledge typically place their right hand over their heart. The pledge is made at many public events, recited by students and teachers of primary and secondary schools, among others. The form of oath used to this day was proposed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally approved by Congress in 1942. flag, Americans have traditionally shown their loyalty to their country. We take matters like this seriously and will be taking action to address it.”īy pledging allegiance to the U.S. While we do not discuss employee related matters, we can tell you that showing respect and honor for our nation’s flag is a value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees. “I pledge allegiance to the queers,” Pitzen announces, adding that she also intends to hang a larger flag in the classroom, but will probably need a ladder to do so.Ī spokesperson for the Newport Mesa School District has released a statement to Fox News, which reads: “We are aware of this incident and are investigating. Then, she displays the LGBT flag in her class. In the video, she is wearing rainbow glasses, earrings and shows how she decorated the whole class for the occasion. “In the meantime, I tell this kid that we do have a flag in class that he can pledge allegiance to,” Pitzen adds, showing the rainbow LGBT flag in the shot.Īnother video was made by Pitzen on the occasion of the so-called Pride Month, a month that celebrates LGBT. And I told them I’d find it, that I am working on it, of course,“ Pitzen said with a laugh, hinting that she had no plans to look for anything. “But the children told me that it is kind of weird when they stand and say it to nothing. She claims she packed it away and forgot where she placed it. She shows off all the pride flags in her classroom and says “I pledge allegiance to the queers” /eQXe1OfPoW- Libs of Tik Tok August 27, 2021īut then she continues by saying that she took the flag down during school closures related to COVID-19, because it made her uncomfortable. And that’s totally fine,“ says the teacher.
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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, but you don’t have to say the words. Kristin Pitzen, an English teacher at Back Bay High School in California, says in the video that her students are to make a traditional pledge of allegiance to the American flag, which is a standard part of various school days and ceremonies in schools across the nation. In a video posted to TikTok, a young English teacher at a high school in California shares how she told her students that they do not have to make a traditional pledge of allegiance to the US flag if they do not want to, and according to her, it will be much better if they make their pledge to the LGBT flag. Rising progressivism in American schools can take many forms, but the latest example serves as a stark example of the ideology being taught to schoolchildren.