John Freshwater Addresses MVBOE — February 2010

John Freshwater used his three minutes of public participation time to update the Mount Vernon Board of Education on recent developments related to his employment hearing.

"I thought the hearing was about to end sometime last month but the proceeding changed again because somebody sent an anonymous letter containing some photographs of some items from my classroom," Freshwater said. "Last week another anonymous delivery was made that contained approximately 300 photographs of items that were in my room. "

"On January 14, 2009 my attorney subpoenaed from the board, Mr. Short and the boards attorney, all the materials from my classroom," Freshwater said. "The board's attorney indicated to my attorney that the board did not have anything from my classroom. "

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[sierraromeo]

"Mr. Freshwater testified that he was told by an administrator to destroy the Tesla coil."

Sir, thank you. You just confirmed his acts of malfeasance with the lab equipment.

[mountvernon1805]

Why would following the direction of an administrator be "acts of malfeasance"?

[sierraromeo]

I would like to know why Mr. Freshwater destroyed the Tesla Device used to burn crosses

on students arms.

[mountvernon1805]

Mr. Freshwater testified that he was told by an administrator to destroy the Tesla coil.

The allegation of the burn was included in the HROC report, but Mr. Freshwater contests that anyone was burned.

[saq428]

Typical...won't let him finish his statement.

[mountvernon1805]

It would have been nice if the board had allowed Mr. Freshwater to finish--but there is a three minute rule for those that speak during the public participation portion of the meeting.

(When Mr. Freshwater spoke to the board on August 4, 2008 he was allowed to go over the time limit.)

[TheWildOne10]

I had Mr FresH2O (Freshwater...get it? hehe) in 7th grade. I don't remember him burning crosses or teaching anything religious. Just science. He was interesting and I still remember almost everything he ever taught me.

[buddy215]

Anyone who has followed this case and read the reports on the testimony given at the hearing, should realize that there are other Freshwaters in the Mount Vernon schools. There is a proselytizing fundamentalist religious cult . Education for those teachers is secondary. Teaching the students not to trust science and creating a Taliban like atmosphere.

Teachers openly defying state guidelines.

[sierraromeo]

"Why would following the direction of an administrator be "acts of malfeasance"? "

Duh, I think they knew someone was going to jail, so, hide the weapon!

[buddy215]

The last paragraph that he did not read--I will interpret it.

"Either pay me to go away or I and my attorney will drag this out for another year or more and cost the taxpayers several more hundreds of thousands of dollars."