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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrack Coach Fired for taking Senior to Prom
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/track-coach-daughter-law-nike-co-founder-fired-141749438.htmlTrack coach, daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder, fired for taking senior to prom
The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, who has served as a volunteer high school track and field coach in Oregon, was fired on Monday after an investigation proved that she escorted a 17-year-old member of her boys track squad to the school's prom.
As reported by the Associated Press, 41-year-old Melissa Bowerman, the daughter-in-law of waffle-sole inventor Bill Bowerman, escorted an unnamed 17-year-old on the Condon (Ore.) High track team to the school's prom after the runner told her he lacked a date for the prom. Bowerman, who is married to 73-year-old co-coach Jon Bowerman and also has a son on the same team, told the AP that she offered to take the student to prom in part to motivate him to improve his grades in his English class.
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This country has lost all sense of common sense and reason. THIS isn't some sort of perverted person sneaking around with a kid trying to get into their pants.
This is something innocent and IMHO charming.
This is a type of story that is being sensationalized for nothing.
It was an innocent date. I remember reading about a child star taking his older co-star (I think the older co-star played an Aunt or Mom in the series but she was older) On a date because he had the guts to ask her or how about when make a wish or just a child getting to on a "Date" with a celebrity. Hell when I was a sophomore in High School and David Copperfield was doing all those TV specials. I had a friend who happened to be at one of his shows got to meet him backstage and for whatever he knew her parents and a couple other couples. My friend parents and two other couples where going to dinner together. So since everyone was paired up but my friend and David he said to her: "How about being my Date tonight." She Danced a couple Dances with him. He didn't make her feel left out especially since her parents and the other couples talked for hours about high school -a time before David knew the couples. Is there anything wrong or perverse with that?
I can't believe we can't as a society realize some innocent harmless fun and something perverted.
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Track Coach Fired for taking Senior to Prom (Original Post)
lookingfortruth
May 2012
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richmwill
(1,326 posts)1. That student must feel terrible now, with her getting fired over it. (n/t)
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)2. Something can be innocent an inappropriate at the same time.
As a coach, she should have known better. I'm assuming the school has a policy against such things and an employee should be aware of that.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)3. That is against teacher ethics.
That teacher should have known better. That firing was completely justified. Teachers are considered "in loco parentis" and have power over their students.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)4. Married to a 73-year old, can't rule out the temptation
of someone much younger, healthier, less wrinkly etc.
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)5. She can't do that, no matter how innocent it may have been.
It's not about perversion, it's about laws and ethics set up to protect the student, a minor in this case.
hunter
(38,311 posts)6. If proms are about sex they ought to be outlawed.
If not, then what's the problem here?
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)8. *** DING *** DING *** DING ***
We have a winner. Thread over folks.
pa28
(6,145 posts)7. I have to agree with you.
She made a totally above board move in the spirit of having some fun. She was also a skilled person who volunteered time and expertise to the track program.
Now she's been "fired" from her unpaid position. Who loses here?