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A Galloway Township municipal court judge is slated to examine Neptune Middle School VP and Freehold resident Michael Smurro’s case Thursday. (Shutterstock)
FREEHOLD, NJ A Neptune Middle School vice principal who threw beer at a group who filmed his wife s transphobic rant is set to have harassment claims against him reviewed by a municipal judge in Galloway Township on Thursday.
Michael Smurro is also accusing the onlookers of harassment against himself and his wife.
The vice principal tossed beer at a table of restaurant patrons who filmed his wife complaining about a trans woman using the women s bathroom at Fred & Ethel s Lantern Light and Tavern in Galloway Township on April 24.
A violent, transphobic and hateful physical aggressor does not belong anywhere near N.J. children, petition organizers wrote. We demand that he be removed from his position IMMEDIATELY, without pay, until a full investigation of this situation is complete.
The petition is addressed to both the Neptune Township Board of Education and the New Jersey Department of Education. It has garnered almost 2,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning, with a goal of reaching 2,500.
A letter of demand that includes the petition and calls for better protection of students, specifically transgender middle schoolers, will be brought to the township board of education this week, the organization wrote.