CA teacher placed on leave, video shows her imitating Native American dance, wearing headdress

[left-of-center2012]

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]

1. Wow! She really goes the extra mile to get her students to remember.

Bet they never forget that lesson.

[marble falls]

3. She's been doing this since 2012. Exactly what CRT is about: that systemic racism ...

... gives permission to individuals to hold racist views.

[lindysalsagal]

4. They're grinding down teachers into mannequins.

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]

7. The context is: This is racist and harmful.

[lindysalsagal]

9. No. The context is, teachers are servants. Not professionals.

She only deserved a warning. This is BS.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Teachers aren't professionals? What on earth?

They can be servants, and also do racist things.

[dsc]

17. She means teachers aren't being treated as professional

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]

12. Teachers aren't professionals ?

[Merlot]

15. You know, the kind of "non-professionals" that have advanced degrees.

[left-of-center2012]

18. My mother was a teacher

She had a “Master of Education degree, abbreviated as ‘M. Ed.’ or ‘EdM degree’”

Oh well.

[brush]

16. Come up to the 21st century. We don't do "blackface" anymore...

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]

19. I'd say its somewhere between lame cultural appropriation and actual racism, depending on intent

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]

14. Oh FFS ... this is 2021

You don't disrespect Native Americans like this.

This is the equivalent of doing a blackface minstrel skit.

Sad!

[lapucelle]

5. Appalling.

And on a side note...why does the apple poster say "REED"?

[Kali]

6. might be her name

[msfiddlestix]

8. slow news day?

[tulipsandroses]

11. Good. I don't care what her intent was

This is a multicultural society. This is not OK.

[Igel]

20. Obviously it's not. n/t

[left-of-center2012]

13. How does she dress for 'Black History Month'?