“On Friday evening, one of our teachers created a personal social media post that caused alarm and concern related to saluting the American flag,” the district said in a statement. Pritzen, who teaches English as a second language, has also been removed from her classroom and is not teaching students while the investigation takes place. While Pritzen removed both of the videos on her TikTok related to the flag, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District has launched an investigation into her videos. “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?!?” Gay former Trump administration official Richard Grenell tweeted “What kind of parent would allow their child to be taught by this wacko?” he tweeted. Pritzen was called an “indoctrinator with an ungodly social agenda” while another person offered to fly her to Afghanistan, where the Taliban has seized control, The Advocate reports.
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Teacher mocks the American Flag and suggests to students they can say the Pledge of Allegiance to the pride flag: /1QTS5xjPln While some responded positively - and humorously - to Prizen’s video, conservative backlash was swift, especially after it was shared to the Libs of Tik Tok Twitter account. In a separate video on Pritzen’s account, she filmed her classroom decorated for Pride Month, saying, “I pledge allegiance to the queers… You’re appreciated. Pritzen then told the student that there was a flag he could pledge allegiance to, turning her camera to show an LGBTQ Pride flag hanging on a wall. “But my kid today goes, ‘Hey, um, it’s kinda weird that we just stand and then, you know, we say it to nothing.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh well, you know, I gotta find it, like, I’m working on it, I got you.'” “”I packed it away and I don’t know where, and I haven’t found it yet,” Pitzen said. She said she had removed it during the COVID-19 pandemic because it made her “feel uncomfortable.”
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Pritzen said that her students had asked what they could pledge allegiance to, given she doesn’t have an American flag in the classroom.