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One 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.” Pitzen had earlier posted a video to TikTok showing off the collection of Pride flags in her classroom, saying “I pledge allegiance to the queers.”Ĭonservatives were quick to share their opinions and Pitzen received harsh backlash for the video. “‘In the meantime,’ I tell this kid, ‘We do have this flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.’ And he looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?'” At which point Pitzen panned the camera to show a Progress Pride flag hanging on a wall in the classroom. And I packed it away, but I don’t know where and I haven’t found it yet.”īut when the students said it was “kind of weird” to stand and say the pledge when there was no American flag in the room, Pitzen explained it was lost in storage at the moment and that she would do her best to find it. “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.” “So my class decided to stand but not say the words. In a now deleted video Pitzen can be seen saying, “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,” referring to how student take part in the pledge of allegiance in her class. Kristin Pitzen, a teacher at Back Bay High School in Costa Mesa, who posted a video to social media of herself instructing students to say the pledge of allegiance to a Progress Pride flag, has been removed from her classroom pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation by the Newport Mesa Unified School District.