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He was hired as a student-teacher for the fall 2020 semester in the social studies department, according to a personnel report approved by the Middletown school board on Aug. 26. Natale was attending Monmouth University.
In an email, Middletown Schools Superintendent Mary Ellen Walker said that Natale had been fired and barred from school premises. Natale s conduct did not involve any students, staff or the community surrounding Middletown High School South, she said. The district takes the safety and security of our school community very seriously, Walker said. Upon being informed of this matter, we took immediate action to ensure that this individual is no longer permitted on district premises and that his student teaching assignment was terminated.