Was it long-term or just temporary insanity?
An Ohio high school coach and six assistant coaches were fired Thursday over an incident in which they allegedly tried to force a football player to eat a pepperoni pizza despite his religious dietary restrictions forbidding pork.
The Canton City School District Board of Education made the decision during a special meeting following an investigation, FOX 8 of Cleveland reported.
The family of a 17-year-old Canton McKinley High School boy, who is part of the Hebrew Israelite faith, claimed the student was threatened with extra drills for his teammates and being kicked off the team for not eating the pizza. link
Before they were fired the coaches should have been given extra drills. I cannot for the life of me imagine what they were thinking, or how none of the 7 realized that you just don't mess with a student's religion.
This kind of speaks to a general attitude in some coaching staffs that they can bully kids in their classes and on their teams. I doubt any of them would make a kid allergice to peanuts eat a PBJ sandwich. I doubt they'd make some kid who was a vegetarian eat meat. Why on EARTH would they think making a kid who is observing traditional Jewish dietary customs eat pepperoni was acceptable? I put this down to good old boy small town ignorance.
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