A California teacher was placed on administrative leave after a student captured video of the teacher mocking Native Americans to teach a math problem. NBC News’ Pricilla Thompson reports.
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Riverside Unified School District is one of California's, poorly performing, Public Schools where with only two years of seniority the teachers are granted "Tenure" making their employ nearly impossible to terminate.
Riverside has been taking L's lately…Jenny69 and now this nutty teacher
I learned SOHCAHTOA just fine without my math teacher going crazy and mocking Native Americans.
Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent
It's not hard!
These days, people in general are too easily offended. 25-30 years ago or more, I highly doubt anyone would even care. Of course back then, social media
& cell phone video capability didn't even exist.
There is nothing inappropriate at the teacher did. Again it's just a stupid board of education protecting the stupidest things. Instead of really worrying about the crappy food that they serve at public schools, they worry about the stupidest things. Also, don't let me get it started with teachers that I worked in special need or add classes that shout at the students as if they had every right to do so. I don't want to go there because I know I will start something big and it's not going to end pretty. With that said the correct term is here Indians is the right word not native Americans Indians is the right term for these individuals. Just like myself I'm a Mexican not Hispanic Latino.
I remember SOH-CAH-TOA from trigonometry but I also remember the teacher not going this far and that was the 90s so she really messed up
She should be fired
I’m of native ancestry( my mother is native, born on reservation) and I’m not offended. I just consider the source. People that take offense to others mocking them are either insecure about their ethnicity or looking to gain something out of causing a public stir. I am happy to tell people my ancestry and if they want to make a comment ( positive or negative) it’s on them.
Nancy Pelosi in Kente Cloth remember that?
I tried my best not to laugh 😂😂😂😂
I am Mexican and we are half native American and this is not acceptable at all
Just is just dumb. Next…
As an enrolled tribal member, this is more cringe than offensive
libtarded. Cultural appropriation,
Bet the class won’t ever forget the functions of trigonometry!
Omg give me a break….. 🤮
Elizabeth Ellis is a native you say ? I see a white woman with glasses. Lol I know a lot of white people that say that they are native they say I’m a whole 5% cherokee 😂
Frankly it has little to do with Native Americans… that woman is clearly insane and should not be in a classroom.
So its from trig NBC. Defining sine, cosine, and tangent. I don’t ever use a native tie in. I say your foot hurts, so soh cah toa. I have seen people try to relate this to Sacajawea for some reason. That’s were this very confused person is coming up with this.
I think the bigger problem is that she’s creating a distraction instead of teaching. Universities love to do that one
Hard to believe a teacher can do this.
She should send to the asylum right now.
These people are harmful for the human beings.
I’m an Indian 🇮🇳 and I live in America 🇺🇸.
I want to say never lose hope.
Even you are bald , you can be a movie star. Like vin diesel.
You don’t need to be handsome hunks like Indian actors. Even if you are not good looking, you can be an actor. Salute vin diesel.
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she's just crazy….
Lmao this is hilarious!!!!!
The teacher has been doing the same dancing routine in the school for 20+ years and obviously was tolerated for the time period. There was her picture with Am. Indian costume in year book many years Go
I think she mixed-up her meds that day.
Then go back to Europe country. USA is not your country it's for the Native people.
Is she on the bath salt?
I am mix native, This annoys me just seeing how ridiculous she looks I would be annoyed but not offended and I would never "hurt" myself over anyone's opinion of me but I couldn't say the same for them.
Fugging relax u idiots….it was just poor judgement
Wish i had such a lively teacher
But no everyone is quick to condemn people and ruin their lives over what each of us is guilty of at times
but nobody says anything about the content being allowed in rap music??? 🙄😒
100 percent should be fired for teachers doing stupid stuff like that