"Teacher" Leaves a Lasting Impression

Only in America! Here is a crazy religious fanatic allowed to push his brand of Christianity in a schoolroom to the point of burning a cross onto a kid. You would think this kind of behaviour would get the guy bounced immediately from a classroom. Ah... but you forget that America loves God and everybody has a right except those wronged, they get to suffer in silence because that is what God wants.

Here's a video of a news segment about the complaint:



Here's a local news article that explains that after 11 years of complaints against this teacher, he has finally been removed.

For 11 years, other teachers in the school district and people in the community complained about Freshwater preaching his Christian beliefs in class and slamming scientific theories, a school administrator told investigators. ...
Freshwater was told to stop teaching intelligent design and creationism, but he continued, the report found. ...

The report confirmed that Freshwater burned crosses onto students' arms, using an electrostatic device, in December.

Freshwater told investigators the marks were X's, not crosses. But all of the students interviewed in the investigation reported being branded with crosses. The investigation report includes a photo of one student's arm with a long vertical line and a short horizontal line running through it.

The family of one student who was burned filed a federal lawsuit last week against Freshwater and the district, saying the student's civil rights were violated.

Yesterday, the family's attorney, Jessica Philemond, said it was "unfortunate" that the school district didn't do anything sooner to stop Freshwater. ...