{"id":2658,"date":"2008-06-23T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14824395.post-5491723516876530434"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:22:16","slug":"teacher-accused-of-burning-cross-on-students-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/teacher-accused-of-burning-cross-on-students-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher accused of burning cross on student&#8217;s arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bw65qtZS2xg&#038;hl=es\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bw65qtZS2xg&#038;hl=es\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>School administrators in Ohio voted Friday to begin the process of firing a middle school teacher accused of burning a cross into a student&#8217;s arm and refusing to keep his religious beliefs out of the classroom. The Mount Vernon School Board passed a resolution to terminate the employment of John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher for the past 21 years. Freshwater, according to an independent report, used an electrostatic device to mark a cross on the arm of one of his students, causing pain to the student the night of the incident and leaving a mark that lasted for approximately three weeks. More in <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/06\/20\/teacher.cross\/index.html\">CNN, 21.06.08<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School administrators in Ohio voted Friday to begin the process of firing a middle school teacher accused of burning a cross into a student&#8217;s arm and refusing to keep his religious beliefs out of the classroom. The Mount Vernon School Board passed a re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redatea.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}