Free State High School boys basketball coach and social studies teacher Jack Schreiner has been suspended, pending an investigation of allegations of inappropriate behavior.

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“I suspended him with pay,” Lawrence school district Supt. Randy Weseman said Friday evening.

Weseman said he had been told by authorities that Schreiner had been charged with a crime.

Attempts to reach police and the city prosecutor for comment were unsuccessful. Repeated attempts to reach Schreiner for comment Friday also were unsuccessful.

The suspension, Weseman said, does not “presuppose guilt – (suspension) is the policy when situations like this arise.”

Schreiner serves as public-address announcer at Free State football games. He did not attend the Firebirds’ game Friday.

Schreiner led Lawrence High School boys to a state championship in 1995. He’s been at Free State since it opened in 1997.

Weseman said he notified Board of Education members of Schreiner’s suspension.

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“Any further action will come from my filing a recommendation with the board and the board acting on that recommendation,” Weseman said. “At this point, I don’t know what that recommendation will be because I don’t have enough information. We’re just going to have to wait.”

Mitchell Morrow, a Free State junior who was coached by Schreiner on a club team from fourth to eighth grade, said the suspension came as a surprise to him.

“He’s a really good guy,” Morrow said. “I didn’t hear about any of this until right now. It’s kind of shocking really.”

Free State principal Joe Snyder declined to comment on the matter.