A third-grade teacher in Texas ran into trouble for her poorly thought-out use of social media to express her feelings after she was called on the carpet over concerns by school officials and has suggested that she was fired for allowing her students to remain seated for the Pledge of Allegiance after she said that they saw parallels to Nazi propaganda.
The teacher, Sophia DeLoretto-Chudy suggested that she was let go after she embarrassed the school in a viral TikTok post in which she displayed a background image of a list of issues that were presented to her during a meeting at Austin’s Becker Elementary School.
Among the matters of concern listed were not responding to emails in a timely manner, a book study on Harry Potter, and her students sitting out the Pledge during a school assembly in an act of protest that was noticed by school administrators, one that she claimed that they decided to do on their own while admitting that she had told them about militant former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem kneeling.
“In Texas, it’s a crime to question the pledge of allegiance,” reads the text displayed in her video.
In the video, the left-wing activist said that her young students developed their attitudes after they learned about Nazi propaganda and the Hitler Youth during Holocaust Remembrance Week, mixing in slavery for good measure.
@sophforpresident Why yes, thank you for noticing the indoctrination I’ve been working on for months! #TeachingTexas #pledgeofallegiance #teacher ♬ original sound – Sophie Marie
“They brought me a list of concerns. I was a little taken aback,” DeLoretto-Chudy told a reporter for the local Fox News affiliate. “It caused me to have quite a bit of anxiety.”
“It just felt like a very demoralizing meeting. I think that’s really the word for it, where I didn’t feel supported, and I felt disrespected,” she said of the March meeting that inspired her to air her grievances on the Chinese-owned social media app, saying that meeting “left her in disbelief” and that she went to TikTok to vent.
(Video: Fox 7 Austin)
“I fell asleep, and I woke up the next morning, and it had 1.5 million views,” DeLoretto-Chudy said, adding that her post caught the attention of her bosses and that the next day, she was contacted by human resources and summoned to appear at the school districts offices where she was informed that she’d been placed on administrative leave for violating social media policy by posting to TikTok, something that is stated in the employee handbook.
“I had my badge taken away,” she said. “I was locked out of all the apps, was not allowed to communicate with anybody.”
“They made it clear that it wasn’t. It didn’t have anything to do with my instructional practices or what I was teaching or how I was teaching. And it had everything to do with the fact that I had embarrassed one of my administrators on TikTok,” DeLoretto-Chudy added.
@sophforpresident you’d think I was teaching way out west but this is downtown Austin… #TeachingTexas ♬ original sound – Sophie Marie
“I’ve been coming to the capitol and advocating for teachers. And so often I was the only teacher in the room giving testimony on policies that would affect teachers directly in the classroom,” the California transplant said when asked what she’s doing now that she has plenty of extra time on her hands.
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