Question: In what year was the teacher that branded a student with a cross born?

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Teaching assistant: A teaching assistant or teacher's aide (TA) or education assistant (EA) is an individual who assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities.  TAs include: graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), who are graduate students; undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs), who are undergraduate students; secondary school TAs, who are either high school students or adults; and elementary school TAs, who are adults (also known as paraprofessional educators or teacher's aides).  By definition, TAs assist with classes, but many graduate students serve as the sole instructor for one or more classes each semester as a teaching fellow or graduate student instructor.  Graduate and adult TAs generally have a fixed salary determined by each contract period (usually a semester or an academic year); however, undergraduates and high school students are sometimes unpaid and, in the US and other countries with the credit system, receive course credits in return for their assistance.  Teaching assistants often help the main teacher by managing students with learning disabilities, such as ADHD, Autism, or even physical disabilities, such as blindness or deafness.

St. Michael's Catholic Academy (Austin): St. Michael's Catholic Academy is a private college preparatory high school for young men and women in Austin, Texas, with an enrollment of approximately 360 students in grades 9-12.  St. Michael's requires the student to have at least 26 hours before graduating, including one year of a fine arts and one year of athletic credits.  St. Michael's students gain admission to colleges such as the United States Military Academy, Princeton University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, The University of Texas, Reed College, University of Notre Dame, Emory University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Rice University, and is considered one of the most reputable academic institutions in the Austin area.  The student to teacher to ratio is approximately 8 to 1, and the mean ACT Composite is 26.6.  In 2015 and 2016, St. Michael's won the Class 4A Henderson Cup, awarded by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) for excellence in Academics, Fine Arts, and Athletics.  In 2016, St. Michael's won four state championships: Academics, Women's Tennis, Women's Cross Country, and Men's Track & Field.  In athletics, St. Michael's has achieved unparalleled success, with more than 30 state championships in 34 years of existence.  Many former St. Michael's student-athletes have played, or are now playing, Division 1 sports at the college level including football, baseball, basketball, track and field, golf, volleyball, cross country, baseball, and soccer.

Value-added modeling: Value-added modeling (also known as value-added analysis and value-added assessment) is a method of teacher evaluation that measures the teacher's contribution in a given year by comparing the current test scores of their students to the scores of those same students in previous school years, as well as to the scores of other students in the same grade.  In this manner, value-added modeling seeks to isolate the contribution, or value added, that each teacher provides in a given year, which can be compared to the performance measures of other teachers.  VAMs are considered to be fairer than simply comparing student achievement scores or gain scores without considering potentially confounding context variables like past performance or income.  It is also possible to use this approach to estimate the value added by the school principal or the school as a whole.

Mount Vernon City School District: 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 Middle School, 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 for branding a student with a Christian cross and teaching creationism.

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.

Pinckney Academy NC: Pinckney Academy is an alternative Middle School and High School in Carthage, North Carolina.  It is a part of the Moore County public schools system.  Previously, the school was different from the other traditional schools in the county.  Up until the 2009-2010 school year, it offered high school students only to seek credit hours under independent study.  This meant that a student could get credit for a course as soon as he/she is finished with the two packets per course the instructor provides for the student.  In addition, there is no lecture for the student as he or she is self-teaching the subject on their own.  Inside the packet has assignments that the student would have to complete by reading the textbook first then answer the questions from the assignment.  A grade below 70 would not acceptable where the student would have to re-do the assignment until a satisfactory grade is made.  This is different from the traditional school where a course lasts a semester or a year long which would include a teacher doing a lecture for the course.  Since the 2009-2010 school year, the curriculum has gone back to the traditional way as the other schools are in the county.

Govinda Raj Joshi: Govinda Raj Joshi is a Nepalese politician.  Govinda Raj Joshi was born in 1949 at Khalte village in Rupakot Village Development Committee of Tanahun district, Nepal, He stepped into the field of politics in 1964 when he had just begun his student life.  Joshi who regards late BP Koirala as his ideal was the president of free student union (College of Education) and Gandaki Student Council in 1967.  Joshi was a member of Tarun Dal, the youth wing of Nepali Congress Party, in the year 1969 in Tanahun district, He formed the Nepali Congress Tanahun district committee and was the secretary of Nepali Congress, Tanahun, in 2033,He was the secretary of multiparty campaign committee of Nepali Congress Party in 1979, He was the vice- president of Nepali Congress Party, Tanahun district and eventually made it to the central committee member of the party in the year 1997.  Likewise, Mr. Joshi was elected as central committee member of the party in the year 2000.  Twice a central committee member; Mr. Joshi has already held the post of a joint general secretary of the party.  He actively worked as a coordinator while the construction of the Nepali Congress Party Building was underway at Sanepa, Lalitpur.  Joshi who started his career as a teacher was also the founder of Tribhuwan High School, Tanahu district .  He was the founder head master of the school and taught at the very school for six years as a volunteer and spent his personal money to establish high school in his own village .  Later on he was the head master of Shiva Secondary School Rising and also the founder of Adikabi Bhanubhakta Multiple College, Tanahun.  He taught at the very college for two years as a volunteer.

Rav Ashi: Rav Ashi (Hebrew: רב אשי‎ ‎ ) ("Rabbi Ashi") (352–427) was a Babylonian Amoraic Talmid Chacham, who reestablished the Academy at Sura and was first editor of the Babylonian Talmud.  According to a tradition preserved in the academies, Rav Ashi was born in the same year that Rava, the great teacher of Mahuza, died, and he was the first teacher of any importance in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Raba's death.  Simai, Ashi's father, was a rich and learned man, a student of the college of Naresh near Sura, which was directed by Rav Papa, Raba's disciple.  Ashi's teacher was Rav Kahana, a member of the same college, who later became president of the academy at Pumbedita.

Patrick Allen (music educator): Patrick Allen (born 17 October 1955) is the English author of "Singing Matters" (Heinemann publishers), which won the Times Educational Supplement Schoolbook Award in 1999.  He also won The Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004 and the NUT "Teacher Award" for "inspirational leadership of a music group" at the 2015 National Festival of Music for Youth.  Until July 2015, he worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher , based at Ifield Community College in Crawley, England where he was also Head of Music and Chair of Arts.  He was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher status in 2001.  Allen is a UK judge for the Teaching Awards, a music education consultant and a PhD research student at SOAS

Ken Lamberton: Kenneth J. Lamberton (born November 8, 1958) is an American writer and former teacher.  Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Lamberton attended the University of Arizona, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.  He was working as a science teacher in Mesa, Arizona in 1985 when he was awarded a Teacher of the Year award.  A few months later, the then 28-year-old Lamberton was arrested for child molestation for having an affair with a 14-year-old student and transporting her across state lines.  During his twelve-year prison term at the Santa Rita unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex at Tucson, he participated in a creative writing program run by Richard Shelton and became a writer, penning essays for the prison magazine "La Roca".  After his release on September 25, 2000, he began to publish non-fiction books and articles on natural history and crime and punishment in the Southwest.

Supporting paragraphs: Mount Vernon City School District John Freshwater
Answer: 1956