Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag.'
You don't have to say the words.' 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. In the video, Pitzen begins: 'OK, so during third period, we do announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance. '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. 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.
