Track Coach Fired for taking Senior to Prom

[lookingfortruth]

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.

[richmwill]

1. That student must feel terrible now, with her getting fired over it. (n/t)

[Brickbat]

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]

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]

4. Married to a 73-year old, can't rule out the temptation

of someone much younger, healthier, less wrinkly etc.

[obamanut2012]

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]

6. If proms are about sex they ought to be outlawed.

If not, then what's the problem here?

[cthulu2016]

8. *** DING *** DING *** DING ***

We have a winner. Thread over folks.

[pa28]

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?