“Showing respect for our nation’s flag is an important value our District instills in our students and is an expectation of our employees. “On Friday evening, one of our teachers created a personal social media post that caused alarm and concern related to saluting the American flag,” school officials said. Offering another prime opportunity for people to study the way government pits people against each other, a California high school teacher has been revealed to have suggested that kids pledge allegiance to the Gay Pride flag. The school district has allegedly launched an investigation into the incident. “Why are parents turning their kids over to someone they don’t know? I’d like to talk to people who think this is good?!?”įollowing the outcry, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District where, Pitzen is an English-as-a-second-language teacher, announced that she had been removed from her classroom while it conducts an investigation. 100 By Paul Sacca Aug Image Source: The Blaze 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. The teacher, identified in reports as Kristin Pitzen, said in video shared Friday on Twitter by the Libs of TikTok.
“What kind of parent would allow their child to be taught by this wacko?” he tweeted. A California teacher is being investigated for saying she removed the US flag from her classroom and encouraged students to instead pledge allegiance to a gay pride banner, district officials said. ambassador to Germany under the Trump administration, weighed in as well. One person who weighed in called Pitzen an “indoctrinator with an ungodly social agenda,” while another said, “I’ll chip in for a one-way ticket to Afghanistan if she promises to leave the USA immediately.” Richard Grenell, a gay man who was U.S. The vitriol led to Pitzen deleting all her social media accounts.