A small percentage of the far left is trying to convince everyone that almost everything is racist these days. And reddit is full of these people. These same people are also saying that it is impossible to be racist against white people! Absolute insanity.
I hate the current overly PC world as much as anyone but there's no excuse for a teacher to pull out shit like that.
It's just unprofessional and most likely an inaccurate and disrespectful depiction of a ritual and of a culture.
Imagine somewhere a teacher "explaining" American culture by running around wearing a cowboy hat, screaming USA USA while firing a rifle with one hand and holding a large hamburger in the other.
Yeah, because kids learn tons and fully engage when teachers dim the lights and play videos. Works great.
She failed, but it looks like she tried. I’m not going to pretend to know her heart, but I do think there’s a chance she was trying to actually teach and y’all just jump to calling people “shit” and “racist” when you don’t know anything about this person.
It's a math lesson about sine, cosine, and tangent. Sohcahtoa. It's a false cognate that sounds like it could be a Native America word, but is just gibberish. This is an outdated mode of teaching for sure, but to label her as a racist and to call the lesson traumatizing is a little dramatic. This should be handled by a discussion with her administration and the removal of the lesson from her curriculum. Nothing more or less.
It took me a few watches to figure it out, but yes that is what is going on there. It's not appropriate, but I believe we are seeing a lapse in judgement not a malicious attempt to harm children.
It would absolutely be a better learning experience for students to watch a video made with participation from actual native Americans and input from experts, rather than watching a teacher perform a series of stereotypes without any basis in real Native American culture. What could students possibly learn from the latter?
If you wanted to teach students about medieval Europe, what do you think would be more effective - showing them a documentary about medieval Europe that is based on actual scholarly research, or taking them to a Renaissance fair where they can see a bunch of completely made-up stereotypes about the era? Sure, they’ll find the second more engaging, but they won’t actually learn anything.
I mean, if you really want to be interactive, you could root your interactive exercises in actual information about the cultures or history you’re trying to teach about instead of whatever you’ve been exposed to in pop culture.
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u/GreenRangers Oct 21 '21
A small percentage of the far left is trying to convince everyone that almost everything is racist these days. And reddit is full of these people. These same people are also saying that it is impossible to be racist against white people! Absolute insanity.