John Freshwater update
Jun. 21st, 2008 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundWell, the school board met. And decided to fire John Freshwater's happy cross-branding butt.
Ohio board votes to ax teacher accused of branding
"The school board of a small central Ohio community voted unanimously Friday to fire a teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs despite staff complaints and using a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms."
WorldNutDaily, of course, is trying to make this twit somewhat sympathetic and casting it like the branding incident was just an excuse to bring up "old, trumped up charges" against him.
"Daubenmire insisted to WND that the "cross branding" was nothing of the sort. He characterized it as a science experiment Freshwater had been doing for 21 years in which he made X marks, not crosses, on the students' skin with a Tesa Coil to demonstrate electrical current.
"They tried to make it out to be a cross, because it made him look like some kind of idiot," Daubenmire said of the parents."
Oh, like branding x's on the kids would be BETTER??
And according to this article, his lawyer is insisting that no kids were harmed. Funny, causing burns on a kid's skin sounds like harm to me. Didn't Christ say something about harming children and millstones???
"R. Kelly Hamilton, Freshwater’s lawyer defended him saying he is a victim who’s being denied his Constitutional right to practice his beliefs. He called the complaints “fabrications,” not a single child being ever harmed."
Ohio board votes to ax teacher accused of branding
"The school board of a small central Ohio community voted unanimously Friday to fire a teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs despite staff complaints and using a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms."
WorldNutDaily, of course, is trying to make this twit somewhat sympathetic and casting it like the branding incident was just an excuse to bring up "old, trumped up charges" against him.
"Daubenmire insisted to WND that the "cross branding" was nothing of the sort. He characterized it as a science experiment Freshwater had been doing for 21 years in which he made X marks, not crosses, on the students' skin with a Tesa Coil to demonstrate electrical current.
"They tried to make it out to be a cross, because it made him look like some kind of idiot," Daubenmire said of the parents."
Oh, like branding x's on the kids would be BETTER??
And according to this article, his lawyer is insisting that no kids were harmed. Funny, causing burns on a kid's skin sounds like harm to me. Didn't Christ say something about harming children and millstones???
"R. Kelly Hamilton, Freshwater’s lawyer defended him saying he is a victim who’s being denied his Constitutional right to practice his beliefs. He called the complaints “fabrications,” not a single child being ever harmed."
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Date: 2008-06-21 04:55 pm (UTC)In Santee, several years ago, the 7th/8th grade Science teacher threw a chair across the room (almost hitting a student but not) and he was fired very quickly.
How in the world could this have continued for 11 years?
Harm is relative
Date: 2008-06-21 07:17 pm (UTC)Having been burned by electricity a few times myself over the years, I'm inclined to a somewhat broader interpretation of "harm" than "none of the kids died or lost a limb". That stuff hurts!