Teacher burned cross on students’ arms
‘Teaching the values of the parents’
“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.
Teaching the values of the parents? Since when does a science teacher have any business teaching values of any kind. To read the article the school clearly knew he was preaching religion in his classroom long before he decided to brand the kids with the cross. I say close this pathetic example of a school, fire the staff, and bus these kids out of the damn dark ages so they have a chance in this world. As for the science teacher.. how about 10-15 years in the Pen.
Back to that quote. I have heard this “values of parents” argument to justify teaching creationism in schools before. In fact from the principle in the very school my children attend.
I wonder if these parents would have supported segregation since the “values” of the parents in those schools didn’t permit their children to play with black kids? This mentality of mob rule regardless of facts or any sense of humanity is the same exact path that brought us the holocaust, slavery, segregation, the burning of witches and about a million other atrocities. But hey, why read history books when you have the bible!