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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCA teacher placed on leave, video shows her imitating Native American dance, wearing headdress
A Southern California high school teacher has been placed on leave after a viral video posted Wednesday showed her wearing a fake Native American headdress while chanting and dancing.
The footage showed the teacher at John W. North High School in Riverside Unified School District donning a fake feather headdress while chanting "SOH-CAH-TOA," a mnemonic for remembering a trigonometry principle. The teacher's name has not been revealed.
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Haggard Celine
(16,856 posts)Bet they never forget that lesson.
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marble falls
(57,204 posts)... gives permission to individuals to hold racist views.
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)I remember the 70's when teachers were people, and every period you got a new character. That was teaching. She doesn't deserve being removed. That's BS.
And I don't know how any teacher goes to work now that everything they say and do is being broadcast.
You need context, and a short video never gives you that. This might be a teacher who helps girls overcome math fear, or boys writing hesitancy. The students won't learn much if the teachers have to live in fear all day for 35 years.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)She only deserved a warning. This is BS.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)They can be servants, and also do racist things.
dsc
(52,166 posts)And she is right about that. I don't agree with here on this instance but the larger point is spot on
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)She had a Master of Education degree, abbreviated as M. Ed. or EdM degree
Oh well.
brush
(53,848 posts)nor fake "war paint and feather headdresses" which ridicule Native Americans.
Racism is not to be tolerated and I'm disappointed that your views are still from racist past.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Which is what I'd say about roughly 50% of what people flip out about and insist must be 'racism'.
But that's just me.
That being said ... it's pretty damn poor judgement in this day and age, no matter what was in her heart.
Mysterian
(4,591 posts)You don't disrespect Native Americans like this.
This is the equivalent of doing a blackface minstrel skit.
Sad!
lapucelle
(18,319 posts)And on a side note...why does the apple poster say "REED"?
Kali
(55,019 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)This is a multicultural society. This is not OK.