Teacher Burns Crosses on the Arms of Students

[UGAalum94]

I think more info is going to come out about the "burning." I don't think it's going to be the case where he actually did something that caused heat and pain and an injury

(Maybe it's going to be some kind of reaction that accelerates tanning or some stuff like that the kid volunteered for, so the kid is marked, but not actually "burned," as we'd typically think of it.)

We'll see, but I don't think that you'd be looking at a civil suit and a long investigation for actually burning a kid intentionally, no matter what the image was.

And as far as being insubordinate for having a Bible is his classroom: certainly the guy can't be teaching religion as part of his class, particularly if he was directed not to discuss Creationism at all.

(I'm always somewhat sympathetic to teachers when they are accused of "teaching" something that actually came up incidentally because a kid brought it up. It sounds like this guy has been doing this stuff for years though, so maybe he really was teaching it.)

But personally if I was told that I couldn't keep a Bible among my personal possessions at school (or a Koran, Book of Mormon, or any religious text) I might see if I had grounds to sue because the state was restricting my free excercise, assuming of course that there was anytime during the day like lunch when I was considered "off the clock." But I wouldn't expect to display my religious text in a way that seems like an endorsement.

ETA: I don't want anyone to think I think it's okay for public school teachers to teach and promote a specific religion, particularly when they are being paid to teach science. Looking back over my post, I wasn't sure if in my skepticism about what the guy is being accused of, I seemed like I thought what he was doing was okay.