Elementary school gym teacher and now Missouri Teacher of the Year Darrion Cockrell is a modern-day Prince Hal. In the two Henry IV plays, Hal, who later becomes Henry V, is depicted as a wastrel and ne’er-do-well unsuited to the crown that awaits him. His closest friend is the infamous Falstaff, and the two spend their time trading insults, carousing with drinking buddies, and even planning robberies from their headquarters in the Boar’s Head Tavern in Eastcheap, London (sack is wine; capons here are cooked chickens; bawds are pimps; leaping-houses …

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