“He shouldn’t be teaching in schools. I certainly wouldn’t want to be working with somebody like that, doing that kind of thing,” he said.

The district will be on the hook for about $932,000 in legal costs and back pay, according to figures provided by the district, an amount of money that Hamel said could have been better spent elsewhere.

“I don’t think they were very smart in the way (the district) dealt with it,” Hamel said.

Harris was part of a grievance the Middleton Education Association filed on behalf of seven district employees after a 2009 investigation revealed the employees had viewed or shared pornographic or sexually inappropriate images, jokes or videos on district computers. Harris was fired, while the rest received suspensions ranging from three to 15 days or reprimands.

The district maintains the content Harris viewed was more inappropriate than that seen by others. Haus has said the content viewed by others was the same or worse in some cases.