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SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF GAY BASHING AND BURNING STUDENTS
By: Jeff Livingston, Staff Writer - 01-26-10 - 12:00 a.m. PDT
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The school board in Mt. Vernon voted unanimously to terminate science teacher John Freshwater for burning students and practicing hate speech pertaining to gays and lesbians.Freshwater would make the perfect middle school science instructor if he was teaching at a camp for abuse and ignorance. Freshwater had worked for a middle school in Mount Vernon, Ohio, which apparently doesn't appreciation his brand of Christianity.
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The science teacher doesn't believe in evolution, and he doesn't really believe in science if it runs contrary to bible scripture. He was teaching his students that science is bogus due to research that hints there may be a gene that produces homosexuality. According to Freshwater, "Science is wrong,"and "because the Bible states that homosexuality is a sin, and so anyone who is gay chooses to be gay and is therefore a sinner."
Can you imagine the psychological effect he has on gay students? He also teaches creationism, and has handed out surveys asking students how important religion is to them. But his biggest sin -- at least in the eyes of parents -- is burning crosses into his former students' arms.
(Plaintiff Evidence of Burning by John Freshwater)
He's admitted to burning the kids, but claims it wasn't a religious statement, just an experiment he's conducted for 21 years. He also initially denied handing out religious surveys until he was presented copies of them.
The Mt. Vernon school district is having a hard time firing him do to his long career with the school district. Ohio law entitles him to a hearing on his termination, and that's been dragging on now for 15 months. He's been suspended without pay. But if that wasn't enough, you actually have several students who are still showing up to school with T-shirts that read "I support Mr. Freshwater -- God.".
The legal system hasn't been so supportive. The district already coughed up $120,000 to the family of student Zachary Dennis after Freshwater burned his arm with a coil. What Freshwater did was wrong but I have to say what the attorneys did who represented the Zachary family in this case received an astounding $ 115,000.00 while the plaintiff merely got $5,000.
