“We also have to look at our day-to-day practices,” she said. Hill said she intends to convene action teams to develop policies. Hill said Monday that Native American culture will need to be reflected more deeply, not only in history, but also in curriculum for language arts, art, music and other subjects. The measures include expanding diversity training to all district employees, collaborating with local tribal representatives, pursuing a federal grant to provide aid for Native American students and ensuring teaching material for holidays such as Thanksgiving is historically accurate and respectful.
Assembly Member Sabrina Cervantes, D-Corona, also participated.Įxperts: Court ruling breaks decades of Native American lawĪ little more than a week ago, Superintendent Renee Hill announced steps the district was taking measures to prevent a recurrence.
Ramos, a lifelong resident of the San Manuel Indian Reservation in San Bernardino County, is the first California Native American to serve in the state Assembly. “A teacher wore a fake Indian headdress and hopped around a class in a misguided effort to help students remember math principles.” “We’re here because we recently had a sad reminder of the need to increase knowledge of Native American history and culture,” said Assembly Member James Ramos, D-Highland. 19 incident involving the math teacher at North High was captured on a student’s video, which was shared on social media and almost instantly went viral. The meeting was called a few weeks after the Oct. “And at that meeting, let me just say, I was very underwhelmed with the understanding of ethnic studies by administrators here at RUSD.” “Ironically, on the same day that the incident at North High School took place, I had a meeting with RUSD,” he said. It goes against our core values and beliefs and values of equity and well-being.Medina said it is crucial that administrators embrace ethnic studies and pass their enthusiasm along to teachers.
"This behavior is not condoned or tolerated. "Her actions were marginalizing, especially to Native Americans," the school wrote on Instagram. John Wesley North High School posted a photo of the district's original statement, saying the teacher in question is one of their own. Me and my people, we don't have our rights still. ".She's racist and that just makes me so mad. "When I saw that video of her, I just thought that I just was going to explode," the young girl says. Brown, an Indigenous woman who serves as a Native history and culture consultant, has said she is the official spokesperson for the family, as they do not want to be identified for safety reasons.
"This has our full attention and it will be addressed expeditiously," Hill said.īrown posted a video of the board meeting, during which a young Indigenous girl confronted board members about the video. The footage shows the teacher dancing around the room, jumping on tables, screaming, and screeching "SohCahToa" while also doing what is supposed to resemble a "tomahawk chop." "SohCahToa" is a controversial shortened phrase commonly used to teach trigonometry functions sine, cosine and tangent. The student allegedly told Brown that he "felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record," according to her Instagram post. Indigenous woman and business owner Akalei Brown posted the videos on Thursday, which she says she received from an Indigenous student who filmed the incident in his math class. The teacher, wearing what appears to be a plastic headband with paper cutout feathers to look like a headdress, is seen in videos jumping around the room screeching "SoCahToa," a shortened phrase for teaching trigonometry functions, and "tomahawk chopping." A high school teacher from Riverside, California has been placed on leave after viral videos show her mocking Indigenous cultures during a math class this week.