We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. She has also reportedly refused to cooperate with an investigation into the matter. This is what Black people do,” she could be heard saying moments later.Īccording to SFGate, Newman’s resignation comes after she was placed on leave. A teacher in Riverside was placed on leave after a video of her chanting and dancing with a fake Native American headpiece went viral.Subscribe to FOX 11 Los. Since you’ve taught him to make excuses that nothing is his fault. “Your son has learned to lie to everybody and make excuses … to be a child. “I’m seeing what you’re not going through,” a man identified as the teacher’s husband by the Orange County Register later says on the call. I mean, these parents, that’s what kind of piece of s- they are. “She’s answered her phone for the first time the entire year. In audio that Stokes recorded of the call, Newman could be heard appearing to criticize her. Newman had reportedly been speaking with the mother, Katura Stokes, about issues dealing with the digital learning platform used by the school.īut after the conversation concluded, Newman reportedly didn’t realize the call never ended. Kimberly Newman, who was a science teacher at Desert Willow Fine Arts, Science and Technology Magnet Academy in Palmdale, reportedly made the comments shortly after talking with the student’s mother on a Zoom call in January on Martin Luther King Jr. However, the teacher was pictured in a similar fake headpiece in a 2012 yearbook photo. Update: the Riverside Unified School District issued the following statement California teacher has stepped down after she was recorded making racist comments about a Black student and his mother earlier this year, SFGate reported on Monday. Reed is seen wearing a similar fake Native American headdress in a 2012 yearbook Credit: Facebook.
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She's been placed on "leave" while the school district "investigates" something they've known about for ten full years, but suddenly find abhorrent because now they're famous for being terrible. Security stands at the entrance to a film set where police say actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a.
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In what must be a record, this article needs an update in the 12 minutes it's been published. Take a look at some of the top news stories over the past week from across California. To be clear, no state legislator anywhere is trying to ban THIS from classrooms, presumably because no white child will be made "uncomfortable" by it. This is what happens when incompetent teachers Google “SohCahToa Indian” and decide to make racist cosplay the focus of their trigonometry lesson. She has been doing this since at least 2012. Update: this teachers name is Candace Reed. We need to end discrimination and violence against indigenous youth in schools! We’re not in the 1960s anymore, she should know better!
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.” /4zvFS6JfPw Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class. If you're so inclined to make a few phone calls, please feel free. Especially since Reed has purportedly been doing this lesson in just such a manner for the last ten years, at LEAST.
That this happened in the presence of a captive audience comprised of children is definitive proof (no math pun intended) that Critical Race Theory should be MANDATORY educational training for teachers, let alone students. In reality, one would expect to see this revolting little amuse bouche at a cross burning or Travis Tritt concert - both of which happen in the dark and with very few people in attendance. Allegedly, this racist, violent display was designed and performed to "teach" students a way to remember the mnemonic device for sine, cosine, and tangent, while mocking Indigenous people whose land and children white people stole, and who still have not been made whole after four hundred years. North High School in Riverside, California. Meet Candace Reed, hopefully soon-to-be-unemployed teacher of John W.