Track Coach Fired for taking Senior to Prom [View all]

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/track-coach-daughter-law-nike-co-founder-fired-141749438.html


Track 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.