Posted on 06/12/2021 12:59:58 PM PDT by simpson96
CANTON, Ohio (WOIO) - The whistleblower who alerted school officials about the alleged actions of Canton McKinley High School coaches said he was unfairly punished.
It’s been over a week since the vote that rocked the high school football program.
Seven Canton McKinley football coaches, including Head Coach Marcus Wattley, were fired after a punishment, last month, involving a player.
The coaches were let go from their coaching positions after a unanimous vote by the Canton City Board of Education last Thursday.
Besides Wattley, the other coaches canned include Cade Brodie, Tyler Thatcher, Romero Harris, Frank McLeod, Zachary Sweat, and Josh Grimsley. Some of their jobs off the field now hang in the balance.
“What happened on May 24th was an ill-managed attempt to instill discipline in our students. The type of behavior that took place was inappropriate, divisive, and demeaning,” said Canton City School District Superintendent Jeff Talbert.
The coaches allegedly punished the student for missing a voluntary workout by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza against his religious beliefs.
The student and his family are Hebrew Israelite and keep kosher, meaning they don’t eat pork.
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Additional students complained of having to eat pineapple pizzas and cucumber pizzas.
If they did this to my kids on a Friday during lent, I’d definitely be outraged. How are these coaches so dumb? Same point could have been made with a cheese pizza.
Blake said Grimsley had no knowledge of the student’s dietary restrictions and that he immediately informed his supervisor of what he witnessed.
“He had absolutely nothing to do with the activity with the student. He’s loyal to the school, he’s loyal to the students,” said Blake.
This is terrible. How could these guys be such jerks?
What a confusing story. It was a voluntary workout, so why was he punished for not being there? The school fired all of the coaches, including the one whose only involvement in the incident was reporting it. I’ll bet they knew about the kid’s dietary restriction, too. Otherwise, how was it punishment to force him to eat the pizza? It all makes sense, though, when you consider how a lot of schools have gone over into Bizarro World.
Indeed.
Hebrew Israelite? Where have I heard that name before? Oh yes, it was the group that started harassing Nick Sandmann during a march for life parade in D.C. Not to excuse the coaches, but I’ll bet the player involved had attitude that the coaches were fed up with.
Again, I’m not excusing the coaches.
There’s always 2 sides to every story. Unfortunately the public is only provided with the one that will create the most outrage.
There’s always 2 sides to every story. Unfortunately the public is only provided with the one that will create the most outrage.
Now, that’s just cruel and unusual punishment.
We got punished by running laps and hundreds of pushups.
Punished for missing a voluntary workout?
Got that beat...eighth grade Catholic school...Nun finds cigs in my buddy’s bag. Marches him up to the front of the class, asks him if he likes smoking...he says yes she says good cause you’re going to eat them. She cut off the filters, made him chew them and spit them into the trash can.
Fascinating.....
Thank goodness he didn’t come out as a tranny. Who KNOWS what they would have made him do!
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