After a community meeting Tuesday with the Lee County School Board, talk turned fiery over the resignation of Tyler Murphy, Cape Coral High School football coach and a physical education teacher. After resigning, Murphy attempted to rescind his resignation but it was not accepted.<\/p>\n
About a dozen football players and a few parents confronted system officials, urging his reinstatement. One man was escorted out by police.<\/p>\n
Lee Schools\u2019 spokesman Rob Spicker says a parent came forward with hundreds of pages of text messages that confirms Murphy had sexual activity with a parent on campus. <\/p>\n
When presented with the evidence, he resigned, Spicker says. The school board accepted his resignation at its meeting Oct. 17. As required, the system submitted the information to the state. <\/p>\n
The future of his teaching certificate now rests with the Florida Department of Education.<\/p>\n
Murphy, a first-year teacher, was in a probationary period.<\/p>\n
Spicker says to the school district, this matter is closed.<\/p>\n
The Cape Coral High School football team is now being coached by a former assistant coach, Jaylen Watkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a community meeting Tuesday with the Lee County School Board, talk turned fiery over the resignation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}