New Zealand school sanctioned after firing sports coach for being gay
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand Christian school has been ordered to pay undisclosed compensation and apologize to a sports coach it fired because he was gay.
Board members of Middleton Grange School in Christchurch — on New Zealand's South Island — will also attend courses on human rights awareness, school principal Richard Vanderpyl said Thursday.
"We're thinking of the impact on him," Vanderpyl said. "We care for him and respect him."
He said he offered to rehire the 28-year-old coach, but the man had already found a new job at another Christchurch school....
