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Teacher of the Month

Jared John Gallagher, assistant football coach at Corriher-Lipe Middle School in Landis, N.C., was apparently having a bad day. When deputies arrived in response to a disturbance call, the head coach, Douglas Pruitt, told them Gallagher had attempted to strangle a seventh-grade student, and had assaulted a parent. When Deputy William Lowery approached, Gallagher demanded the deputy take off his sunglasses, then clenched his fists. Gallagher allegedly continued threatening the officer, and Lowery eventually tagged him with a Taser. But Gallagher pulled the prongs from his skin. Another officer fired his Taser too; it took two more shocks to get Gallagher to surrender. He was charged with child abuse, possession of a weapon on educational grounds (a handgun in his car), and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors. (MS/Salisbury Post) ...Apparently this was part of his usual coaching lesson to the kids: “Never give up.”