TAMPA — Teachers at two Hillsborough County high schools were pulled from classrooms yesterday amid allegations of inappropriate conduct with students.

A soccer coach at Newsome High and a physics teacher at Plant High are under examination, according to school officials.

At Newsome High, an assistant principal received a shout yesterday from a parent claiming that boy’s soccer coach Ronald Lewis, 37, “was having an inappropriate relationship with a student,” school spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said.

She said the charges involved a female student. Lewis, a computer lab manager who has worked at the east Hillsborough school since

August, is suspended with pay pending the outcome of an review.

Due to the nature of the allegations at Newsome, school officials turned the case by to law enforcement.

At South Tampa’s Plant High, physics teacher Christopher Gillis, 22, was removed from the school following allegations that he send inappropriate emails to a student.

School spokesman Stephen Hegarty did not know the subject matter of the emails. “He’s just been pulled out of the classroom. We need to see whether there’s any truth to the allegations,” Hegarty said.

Original post by Letitia Stein