A teacher at a Riverside, California school has been placed on administrative leave after a video emerged showing her wearing a faux Native American headdress while dancing and chanting in front of her class. Video footage of the clip, which was filmed in the classroom and shared on Twitter, shows the John W. North High School teacher waving her arms in the air during a math class while wearing a headdress made of paper. She can repeatedly be heard chanting “SohCahToa”, a mnemonic device used to remember the three basic trig ratios used to solve for missing sides and angles in a right triangle; sine, cosine and tangent. At one point, the video shows the teacher standing on desks at the back of the classroom and shouting out the chant before making references to a “rock god” and “water goddess.” The video was heavily criticized by lawmakers including California assemblymembers Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Sabrina Cervantes …
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