Footage of the teacher, identified as Candice. We’re not in the 1960s anymore, she should know better. A teacher’s tasteless lesson plan is stirring up ire online after footage of her mocking Native American culture was shared on social media. We need to end abuse & discrimination against indigenous youth in schools! There is no excuse for this type of behavior. “This student has a Native first name and outwardly identifies as Native American. “I am sharing this video because these behaviors can no longer be swept under the rug! As adults, we must stand up for our youth! Please help us in getting the word out and SHARE!” Brown wrote. “At first the student noticed the teacher was pulling out a fake feather headdress and when she put it on he thought, ‘what is she going to do?’” the caption added.īrown used her post to make a personal plea to her followers.
It was not immediately clear what math lesson, if any, she may have been trying to teach her students by trying to imitate Native American dance. North High School in Riverside, where she has reportedly been putting on the same performance for her students for more than a decade.
The caption also identified the teacher as Candice Reed, who works at John W. “After several minutes of the teacher ‘war hooping & tomahawk chopping’ the student began filming because he, ‘felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record,’” the caption said in part. Encouraging her followers to “Please SHARE Widely,” Brown’s caption for the video said “a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class” on Tuesday.
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