She was recorded wearing a faux headdress and chanting while teaching the 'sohcahtoa' mnemonic for trigonometry functions.
by wearing a faux headdress and chanting during a math lesson in October was fired last week after months of protest, Native American advocates said.
The district had previously said the teacher at John W. North High School was placed on leave while it investigated the incident.“It was a victory for us, because it does show our voices were heard,” said Dee Dee Manzanares Ybarra, the director of the American Indian Movement‘s Southern California chapter and chair of the Rumšen Am:a Tur:ataj Ohlone tribe, who attended school board meetings with other activists since the video became public.
Immediately after the video went public, Native American community members organized protests at the school, demanding the firing of the teacher and an apology. Any changes to a curriculum should be done with the involvement of tribes who first lived on the land, Valdemar said.
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