Minority teachers at Oregon school: Eye-rolling is ‘harmful,’ based on white supremacy

Minority teachers at an Oregon elementary school are claiming that rolling one’s eyes is a “harmful practice rooted in White supremacy.” The basis for this claim by Errol Hassell Elementary School BIPOC (black, Indigenous, people of color) educators was a rumor that their principal, Cynthia Moffett (pictured), might be fired.

In an email late last month the teachers claimed opposition to Moffett was “a result of bias and targeted aggression,” Fox News reports. The email also included a list of “micro and macroaggressions” the teachers claimed to have “observed and experienced.”

One example was staff “rolling their eyes during … meetings while Principal Moffett is speaking.” Others were speaking to Moffett in “a disrespectful and aggressive manner” and complaining about a book club which covered “dismantling racial oppression.”