Two weeks ago on Friday night, after an eight-year absence, coach Joe Kennedy once again knelt in silent prayer at the 50-yard line after the Bremerton (Washington) High School football game.
His return to the field should have been the celebrated conclusion of a long battle that culminated at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The punitive actions didn’t stop with the onboarding process. Once Mr. Kennedy had been reinstated, the treatment got worse. When he alerted the head coach that his key fob for the school didn’t work properly, causing him to miss a mandatory Monday coaches meeting, the head coach belittled him for it.In days leading up to the game, he was instructed not to talk to the team about what would happen Friday night. The head football coach told Mr. Kennedy that he would talk to the team, but that Mr. Kennedy was not allowed to be present.
That is, in fact, why the coach and his wife moved to Florida during his long court fight. Despite the Bremerton School District and its attorneys’ spurious claims, Mr. Kennedy’s heart was always in Bremerton, and his desire to return was great.
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