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Canton City School District to use ESSER funds for new outdoor learning space and parking lot where the Red Feather building once stood.

Print this article Several coaches for one Ohiohigh school’s football team were fired after they forced a player who kept kosher to eat pork against his religious beliefs. The Canton City School District fired head coach Marcus Wattley along with six assistant coaches, the school board announced following a unanimous vote on Thursday. The other coaches who are out of a job are Cade Brodie, Joshua Grimsley, Romero Harris, Frank McLeod, Zachary Sweat, and Tyler Thatcher. “This means that these individuals are no longer coaches with the Canton City School District, and they will not be invo...

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The head football coach at an Ohio high school and six other coaches there have been ousted after a football player said he was forced him to eat pork in violation of his religious beliefs for missing a voluntary workout. The Canton City Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to not renew the coaching contracts of Canton McKinley head football coach Marcus Wattley, two of his assistants and an assistant baseball coach, The Canton Repository reported. With the same vote, the board also deemed three other assistant football coaches as ineligible for future coachi...

Eight coaches were initially suspended after reports that a 17-year-old student was forced to eat pepperoni pizza, violating his religion.

An Ohio high school football coach was among seven people fired for forcing a player to eat food that went against his religious beliefs.&nbsp; Per <a...