In the days since I posted my concerns about the Bush School’s handling of an incident of racism on campus, outrageous personal attacks have been leveled against me. Many of these attacks (all of which have been made anonymously) have concerned alleged assaults on students or affairs with colleagues. Some have wondered whether these accusations are the real reason that I was "let go.” Obviously, if I had behaved towards students in the way described in these anonymous online attacks, there would be documentation to that effect in my personnel file. At the end of my four years there, there was no record of any such incidents in my file, nor were any such incidents addressed in the conversation about my contract renewal.
It has been claimed by anonymous online posts that one of the issues I did NOT speak out about while I was teaching at the school was the issue of this racist letter. This, too, is flatly untrue. I communicated in writing with Jack McHenry, Frank Magusin, and the then-president of the Bush School board about the racist letter during that school year while the question of whether or not the student responsible would be suspended was still on the table.
I stand by my reputation as an educator. Although it has come at some personal cost, I also stand by my decision to address publicly what I viewed as administrative irresponsibility at the Bush School.
Truman Buffett
I'm a Nova student and I'm good friends with a lot of ex-Bush kids, and seeing the current Bush kids' reactions to all this is so frustrating! It's so difficult to stay civil! But when I refrain from you know, using expletives and violent thoughts like I may want to and try to be constructive, I get called patronizing… They really think there's NOTHING wrong, and I just can't see any way that any of these institutions or attitudes will ever change. luckily today's the rapture
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