Teacher makes students pledge to gay flag
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The Newport Mesa School District announced Saturday that it launched an investigation into the matter. The doxxing continued as another user posted a picture of what they claimed was Pitzin’s home. One user posted her home address and phone number, a clear doxxing effort meant to encourage harassment. “Send her to Afghanistan,” wrote one Facebook user. Pitzin deleted her TikTok account as the school district’s Facebook page became inundated with hateful comments from people calling for Pitzin to be fired. The majority of responses to the original video felt in on the joke, but conservative social media users pounced on the clip, claiming it was evidence of Pitzin pushing an “ungodly social agenda” onto minors in her classroom. 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 Instead, Pitzen joked that her students could recite the pledge to another flag hanging in the room, moving the camera to show a Progress Pride flag displayed on the wall while laughing. Pitzen removed the American flag from her classroom at an earlier date during the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it “made her uncomfortable.” When her students brought up the lack of a flag to pledge to, she searched for it but was unable to find it.
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When her students chose to stand but not say the words, they expressed that it was “weird” to do so without an American flag present in the room.
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“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,” Pitzen said in the now-deleted clip. In the video, Pitzen explains that the Orange County, CA school she works at has students recite the pledge of allegiance during third period and that she allows students to participate in the pledge in any way they see fit. The issue originated from a viral TikTok video from Newport Mesa School District teacher Kristin Pitzen.