A Columbus 8th-grade teacher at a public school is under fire for burning a cross into a students arm, holding “healing sessions” and keeping a bible on his desk at all times according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Mount Vernon administrators say science teacher John Freshwater described the meaning of Good Friday and Easter and taught his religious beliefs in class.
The branding supposedly occurred during a science class in which Freshwater asked students to volunteer to see how an electrical device would work.
“He (the boy) didn’t know it would be a cross and he didn’t know it was going to hurt,†said Jessica Philemond, an attorney representing one of the students.
The “healing” allegedly took place during a Christian student-athlete group meeting within school hours. A guest speaker had an illness.
“(Freshwater) said out loud, ‘Satan be removed from this man,’†said Philemond.
Last week, Freshwater was forced to remove posters of the Ten Commandments, bible versus and bibles from shelves. He refused to remove his personal bible from his desk.
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