Science teacher's hearing resumes (burning crosses on students' arms)

[The Straight Story]

Science teacher's hearing resumes


MOUNT VERNON, Ohio - Participants hope to wrap up a hearing on whether John Freshwater should keep his teaching job by sometime in June, but sessions could resume next fall, they said yesterday.

The administrative hearing started almost two years ago after Mount Vernon school board members voted that they intended to fire the eighth-grade science teacher for teaching creationism and intelligent design, failing to remove religious materials from his classroom after being told to do so, and burning crosses on students' arms.

The hearing appeared to end three months ago, but Freshwater's attorney, R. Kelly Hamilton, never closed his case.

The hearing resumed yesterday and is to continue today. At least three additional dates are scheduled for early June, and both sides have agreed not to hold any sessions during the summer school break, because witnesses will be difficult to schedule.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/30/science-teachers-hearing-resumes.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

[tonysam]

1. He sure had a lot more help than I did when I was terminated

It was all jerryrigged to help the district, not me, when I was denied character witnesses on my behalf, documents were falsified, perjury by the district was committed, witness tampering was committed, bribery was allowed, a biased hearing officer was selected who "coincidentally" had absenteeism as his specialty, and so on. The sham hearing took all of 4 hours, while my principal had admitted to negligence and committed numerous acts of it. Guess who "won" this hearing? It wasn't me.

It was all to protect the crooks in the administrative building, specifically the head of human resources, when he wanted to cheat me out of my full retirement benefits and found a way to do it.

[donco6]

2. If he varied from the curriculum after being warned not to, he should be fired.

Many court cases have ruled that curriculum is the purview of the Board of Education.

[tonysam]

3. He's already "fired" but now is appealing this termination

The school board did it in his case; an asshole principal who didn't even read the administrator manual, the Nevada Administrative Code, the negotiated agreement, or official correspondence sent to me with a copy sent to her "fired" me as if I were an at-will employee.

The district went out of its way to rig the hearing to help her, and the crook in human resources who put her up to it, and ruin my life. The district totally fucked it up while ruining me in the process.

It's not fun losing every goddamned thing you ever worked for because of a no-good piece of shit who still has HER job, not to mention the asshole in human resources.

[Junkie Brewster]

5. Never mind

Always read the whole thread before commenting. DUH!

:yoiks:

[mzteris]

4. if he burned students arms

(forget the cross for a moment) - he should be in jail for assault!

[yellowcanine]

6. Yes I am amazed he even has the nerve to appeal the termination.

Willful assault of children would seem to be something that would get you fired and keep you fired just about anywhere

[RedCloud]

7. What if he calls in Yahweh Elohim as a wintess? Should they wait?