![]() ![]() ![]() She dances across the front of the classroom, as some students laugh, repeatedly chanting “SohCahToa.”įenelon, a Lakota-Dakota scholar and professor, said the teacher may have been trying to help kids remember something but that doesn’t excuse how the lesson was presented. A 2012 North High yearbook contains a picture of and quote from the same teacher, using the same teaching tactic, according to a North alumnus who graduated that year.Īs the video begins, the teacher asks students: “I don’t know? Tomahawks? Is that right?” while moving both arms up and down, as if she were chopping something. “It’s essentially mockery is what it is - racial mockery,” said James Fenelon, director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at Cal State San Bernardino.Īpparently, this wasn’t a first occurrence. North High School teacher - who was placed on leave - appears to be sharing with students the word “SohCahToa,” a mnemonic device used to help students remember advanced mathematics concepts.Ĭommunity leaders, educators and former North High students blasted the teacher’s behavior as racially insensitive. 20, and blew up on the internet, the John W. In the video, which hit social media Wednesday afternoon, Oct. A student’s video of a Riverside teacher wearing a faux Native American headdress and dancing in front of her math class has gone viral and sparked calls to fire the instructor and halt teaching tactics perceived as disrespectful to some cultures. ![]()
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