KEARNY, N.J., Feb. 20 — The teacher who is the subject of a potential lawsuit regarding proselytizing in a public high school history class denied on Tuesday night that he had preached in class and said that the student who taped him had never expressed discomfort to him about his comments.
The teacher, David Paszkiewicz, 38, spoke for the first time with reporters about the controversy outside a school board meeting here during which the board took the first step toward approving a policy that specifically requires teachers to “refrain from advocating one religion.”
The student, Matthew LaClair, 16, recorded the teacher’s history classes in September after, he said, he became uncomfortable with the religious nature of the discussions in class. He has said that he felt his criticisms of the popular teacher would not be believed otherwise....
Dr. Jason Lisle | 6/1/2005
