This video is weird as hell, you’d almost laugh if you didn’t know its a math teacher
California Math Teacher’s Bizarre Dance Display Says Something About America
Lincoln BrownOct 23, 2021 2:18 PM
A California teacher has been placed on leave after a student filmed her performing her version of a Native American dance in order to teach her students a mnemonic intended to help them master trigonometry.
The California News Times has identified the school as John W. North High School and has named the teacher. According to the site she has been doing this particular routine for some time now.
The video is worth a look if for no other reason than it is one of the most bizarre things you will watch this year.
To be honest, I was not sure if the performance was an example of racism, insensitivity, cultural appropriation, or just a good old-fashioned psychotic break. I strongly suspect it is the result of naiveté. While the teacher may have had good intentions, the case can certainly be made that the display is insulting to Native Americans. Hell, I felt a little insulted and I’m as white as they come. Seriously, I did the Ancestry.com thing. I really am as white as they come. I can’t even claim to be 1/502th Cherokee.
The local Native American community is angry over the incident. While one may wonder why the teacher’s dance routine is just now coming to light, the anger is justified. “Racism” is a word that is thrown around far too easily these days and the charge can be leveled at the drop of a hat. And while I do not know if the teacher is racist, the dance routine was incredibly insensitive. And displays like this do not do anything but stoke the fire that the Left is too eager to stoke whenever possible.
As I mentioned in a previous column, in a previous life I had married into a Native American family. In order to be a part of the family, and because I genuinely loved my in-laws, I learned to be a Southern Straight dancer and a Gourd Dancer and participated in the sweat lodge….
But we do owe others basic respect and dignity—we aren’t progressives, after all. To be invited to participate and learn is one thing. To turn something into a comedy routine really is another. And no, that is not political correctness or an endorsement of CRT. Rather I offer it as the rational alternative.
There really are two problems with this situation. First is the insensitivity displayed by the teacher. The second is the fact that the property taxes of the people of Riverside are being used for this…whatever it is. As James Woods so aptly stated regarding the incident: “Public schools no longer teach civics or history. Half the kids who graduate can’t make change for a dollar, or know how to read an analog clock. But this nonsense is shoved down their throats daily,” And he is right. When I was in radio, I saw job applications that in addition to being illegible, were so rife with misspellings that I practically needed to hire a translator to read enough of them to know I didn’t want to hire that person. In fact, things such as spelling, grammar, and basic math have fallen by the wayside over the years so people can live their truth and lecture us on which of the 1.5 million genders they are at any given moment.
If this incident is any indicator of what is going on in America’s classrooms, is it any wonder students have become fascinated with their pronouns and want to major in TikTok, Instagram, or in being social justice warriors? Watch the video again. Watch as the teacher hops up and down the rows. About midway through you will see a student put his head down on his desk as if he just can’t watch anymore. If you were a student in that class, how seriously would you take anything that teacher said after watching that? Between that and alleged adults identifying as dragons or sporks—or having full-throated tantrums on their cell phones in cars over masks—should we be surprised kids are deciding that their own truths are the only truths?
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