Let's Arm Teachers - Not Now.....

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Teacher Accused of Terrorizing Own School
Thursday, 31 Jan 2008

A suburban Philadelphia teacher has been arrested for making terroristic threats against her own school, including messages promising to kill people at the school.

Police said the woman was a teacher at the Longstreth Elementary school in Warminster, Pa.

Susan Romanyszyn, a fourth-grade teacher, said nothing as she surrendered at a local district justice office on charges she made 17 terroristic threats against the very school she worked at.

Romanyszyn was charged in connection with a series of threats made against Longstreth that had students, teachers and parents on edge for weeks.

Police said the threats left at the school included references to bombs and quotes such as "Die Today, Kill Em All, You Won't Catch Me I Have A Gun, You're So Stupid I Have To Kill You And I Won't Stop Til You All Die."

Romanyszyn has been teaching here for several years, sources said. She has been on a leave of absence since late October.

Officials alleged Romanyszyn was upset about not getting a fifth grade teaching position she wanted.

The threats caused police to search the school and to station extra officers there for the past four months.

Romanyszyn was ordered held on $1 million bail, but expected to be released on $100,000. Judge Daniel Finello ordered her to stay away from school facilities, teachers and students.

Police allege Romanyszyn left nails in the teachers' parking lot, made a makeshift bomb with screws and did drawings of a gun, a machete and a pipe.

[Rip Van Winkle]

Wow, drawings of "guns, machete's and pipe's" that makes me shake in my boots.