Dec 1, 2007 - The past president of the Oak Creek School District's teachers union, James Buss, 46, was arrested. Police are seeking criminal misdemeanor charges of unlawful use of computerized communication systems and disorderly conduct him.
Buss posed as a teacher-hater on a conservative blog (bootsandsabers.com) in a post praising the Columbine shooters. It was, apparently, an effort to discredit the discussion and the blog. A teacher in the district notified school district administrators who took it as a threat.
Buss is a chemistry teacher at Oak Creek High School. He is on an indefinite leave of absence from the school pending further investigation.
Buss' message on the bulletin board:
The newspaper noted that the referendum to which Buss is accused of referring to was Nov. 6. Voters in the West Bend School District defeated a $119.3 million school building referendum by a 62% to 37% margin. Owen Robinson, the administrator of bootsandsabers.com, opposed the referendum."Looking at those teacher salary numbers in West Bend made me sick. $60,000 for a part time job were (sic) you 'work' maybe 5 hours per day and sit in the teachers lunge (sic) and smoke the rest of the time. Thanks God we won on the referendum. But whining here doesn't stop the problem. Weve (sic) got to get in back of the kids who have had enough of lazy, no good teachers and are fighting back.
Kids like Eric Harris and Dylen Klebold members of the Young Republicans club at Columbine. They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time! Too bad the liberls (sic) rip them; they were heros (sic) and should be remembered that way."
Robinson also opposed having Buss arrested, calling the arrest was unwarranted and urges them to no bill the matter.
Dec 3 - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel journo thinks the issue is anonymous e-mail.
Dec 5 - The prosecutor has decided not to charge Buss. This is how the Associated Press characterizes it:
prosecutor says he won't file charges against a teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine shooters.Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens says Buss was being facetious because he was tired of reading negative comments about teachers.
Sure. Mispellings and all.
