A school board in central Ohio voted Friday to move ahead on firing a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in class and using a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms.No, just...no. You do not get to start a sentence "with the exception of the cross-burning episode." Anything that comes after that is simply irrelevant, period. Once you've got a "cross-burning episode" you're done. That's it.
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A report by independent investigators found that Freshwater also taught creationism in his science class and was insubordinate in failing to remove a Bible and other religious materials from his classroom.
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"With the exception of the cross-burning episode ... I believe John Freshwater is teaching the values of the parents in the Mount Vernon school district," he told The Columbus Dispatch for a story published Friday. - MSNBC.com
As an aside, a friend's wife is a science teacher in southern Ohio. They don't believe in evolution either. Perhaps I'm one of them high-falutin' liberals, but I kinda think belief in the scientific method, and theories that are shown to be highly likely from it (like gravity, evolution, and germs) should be a pre-requisite to be a science teacher.
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Southern Ohio != Central Ohio
Just saying...as someone whose parents lived for a good number of years in central Ohio.
Now - it makes it worse, to me, to see this coming from central Ohio, 'cause it'd generally be held that the Cow-lumbus area is less conservative than southern Ohio, but still...it has its share of idjits.
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