Schools

Blogging Teacher May Be Out of a Job

A lawyer for the Warminster resident said the Central Bucks School District is expected to recommend firing her at a school board meeting on June 26.

EASTERN PA -- When Natalie Munroe was reinstated to her Central Bucks East High School classroom last fall, her lawyer speculated that the English teacher was being set up to fail.

Now, as the school year draws to a close, both Munroe and her attorney, Steven L. Rovner, say they have been proven right.

Rovner said Tuesday that Central Bucks administrators are expected to recommend firing Munroe, whose online comments about her students included "A complete and utter jerk in all ways," "Lazy a--hole," and "There’s no other way to say this: I hate your kid."

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Her blog posts led to a national firestorm about both student behavior and online speech.

Rovner, who lives in Northampton Township and has an office in Feasterville, said Tuesday that the school district is expected to move to terminate Munroe at the school board meeting on June 26.

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"Unfortunately, what I predicted came true, in that Central Bucks was setting Natalie up for failure," Rovner said in an email Tuesday to Doylestown Patch. "They have spent the past year creating an impossible work place, one that would, after the fact, artificially and falsely supports a determination for termination."

Natalie Munroe and her husband, Brian, who live in Warminster, at first declined to comment further on Tuesday.

Brian Munroe, who is running for state representative in Pennsylvania's 29th district against incumbent Republican Bernie O'Neill, said his campaign may make a statement in the next few days.

But within hours, Natalie Munroe had posted a statement on her blog.

"In short, yes, I've been set up," Munroe wrote Tuesday night. "For now, that's all I'm going to say about it."

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