{"id":1908,"date":"2023-03-27T19:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T19:28:37","slug":"high-school-coach-who-was-fired-for-praying-with-players-wins-1-7-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/27\/high-school-coach-who-was-fired-for-praying-with-players-wins-1-7-million-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"High school coach who was fired for praying with players wins $1.7 million settlement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bremerton School District in Washington State unanimously decided to accept the award, which would see former coach Joseph Kennedy get a hefty $1,775,000 (\u00a31,450,973, AUD$2,651,865) settlement amount.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy has been given permission to return to Bremerton High School in 2023 as an assistant football coach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1661 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453453-300x188.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453453-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453453.jpg 615w\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"274\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the district, Kennedy will also get a stipend of $5,304 for his time spent working on the 2023 football season.<\/p>\n<p>The school community is eager to put this nearly eight-year legal battle behind them so that they can focus on what really matters: giving our students the best education possible, according to school board president Alyson Rotter.<\/p>\n<p>After being fired from the organization, the coach has received two pieces of good news. The first is the agreed compensation.<\/p>\n<p>When the Supreme Court ruled in his favor by a vote of 6-3 in June, he experienced his first taste of justification.<\/p>\n<p>The court decided that he had the constitutional right to kneel next to student athletes and pray on the field following games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsupportcoachkennedy%2Fphotos%2Fa.1647146798894979%2F3354706558138986%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-origwidth=\"500\" data-origheight=\"706\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said following the verdict that it\u2019s fantastic to know he done nothing wrong. Everything he did was satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Every time he played football, whether he won or lost, he vowed to thank God. And that was how he started, the speaker continued.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Kennedy began working as a coach at Bremerton High School.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of games he started praying alone on the 50-yard line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1662 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453908435-300x178.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453908435-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topad.new24.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/453908435.jpg 573w\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"240\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gradually, students began to follow him. He also launched a brief inspirational speech with spiritual overtones and led them in prayers in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Years went by without a problem until 2015, when the school board was made aware of claims that certain athletes felt pressured to take part.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped, but he kept praying on the field after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Because he disobeyed district regulations, he was put on a paid vacation and was not rehired for the next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bremerton School District in Washington State unanimously decided to accept the award, which would see former coach Joseph Kennedy get a hefty $1,775,000 (\u00a31,450,973, AUD$2,651,865) settlement amount. Kennedy has been given permission to return to Bremerton High School in 2023 as an assistant football coach. According to a statement from the district, Kennedy will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}