Mount Vernon City School District is a
public school
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* State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government
* Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England an ...
district serving students
Mount Vernon in
Knox County, Ohio
Knox County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,721. Its county seat is Mount Vernon. The county is named for Henry Knox, an officer in the American Revolutionary War who was later the fir ...
. It oversees
Mount Vernon High School Mount Vernon High School could refer to:
*Mount Vernon High School (Arkansas) — Mount Vernon, Arkansas
* Mount Vernon High School (Illinois) — Mount Vernon, Illinois
*Mount Vernon High School (Fortville, Indiana)
* Mount Vernon High Sch ...
,
Mount Vernon Middle School
Mount Vernon City School District is a public school district serving students Mount Vernon in Knox County, Ohio. It oversees Mount Vernon High School Mount Vernon High School could refer to:
*Mount Vernon High School (Arkansas) — Mount V ...
, Columbia Elementary, Dan Emmett Elementary, East Elementary, Pleasant Street Elementary, Twin Oak Elementary, and Wiggin Street Elementary. The district received national attention when the board voted to fire
John Freshwater
John Freshwater (born June 22, 1956) is a former science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School in Mount Vernon, Ohio, who was dismissed by the Board of Education for teaching creationism in a public school.
Freshwater was suspended without pay ...
for branding a student with a
Christian cross and teaching
creationism
Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 't ...
.
References
External links
Mount Vernon City School District – Official website
School districts in Ohio
Education in Knox County, Ohio
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