Calvin Pygott, the Bothell High School shop teacher who faked an attack after school last May after attempting to commit suicide, has resigned from his position, according to a Northshore School District spokesperson.

“(He) has resigned from the Northshore School District and has informed the district that he is surrendering his teaching certificate,” Casey Henry, NSD director of communications, said in an email. “The official date of his resignation is Oct. 6.”

Pygott, 63, who worked at Bothell High School for decades, is also a Bothell High School graduate.

He also appeared in Bothell Municpal Court Oct. 10 after the city’s prosecutor filed charges against him last month for making a false or misleading statement to a public servant and obstructing public officers.

After his attorney, Raymond McFarland, filed continuance paperwork with Judge Michelle Gehlsen on Oct. 10, a pre-trial date was set for 8:30 a.m. Nov. 7, with the case scheduled to go to jury trial Dec. 14.

Both charges Pygott is facing are gross misdemeanors, but they each carry the potential for 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine. He is not currently in jail and must comply with the normal conditions of release, which include no additional law violations and notifying the court of any address changes, Gehlsen told him.

After the court appearance, McFarland told the press he thinks there should be an agreement reached between Pygott and the city. He also said his client is getting professional help to address his mental health issues.

In August, Bothell Police Department interviews with Pygott were released to the media where he tells investigators he was actually attempting suicide because of debt and to save his legacy.

After failing a polygraph test, Pygott came clean to Bothell police detectives about what actually happened in his shop class last spring.

“I put a zip tie around my neck, hit myself on the head with a hammer three or four times, was on the floor, got up realized I wanted to live,” Pygott told investigators during the three-hour interview.

He said he made up the story to try and save his reputation.

“If it somehow looked like it was not me, the legacy, the integrity, and everything else would stay intact,” Pygott said.

Pygott originally told investigators he was attacked from behind. He said he was hit on the head in his wood shop classroom with an object and then the attacker put the zip tie around his neck and left him to die.

But in reality, Pygott had done it to himself because he says he has financial trouble and didn’t want to saddle his family with the burden.

“(If you have) a mountain of debt, you’re worth more dead than you are alive,” Pygott said.

Reporter John William Howard contributed to this report.