Kid suspended for asking Miss America to the prom

[Suits]

Harmless prank, no need for a freakin' suspension.

From the story: "While he has scores of new Twitter followers and Facebook friend requests, Farves said he remains without a date for his school's May 10 prom."

He has also apologized for taking the focus of the event away from Ms. America's "diversity" message and says he feels bad for disrupting an event the school worked so hard to plan.

Doesn't matter. He wins.

How many high school achievements follow you through life?

Does being the star quarterback or shooting the winning basket at the big game going to be something people recognize you for later in life? Are you going to immediately be popular when you enrol in college because of the hilarious prank you pulled on your English teacher senior year?

Nope.

Is being the kid who asked out Miss America going to score you points for the next decade?

Absolutely.

Sure, people aren't going to recognize you in public, but you've got a great story that is immediately going to give you some very desirable DHV any time it "comes up naturally" in conversation.

 

[samsamsam]

His dance steps were badass. Now the Napoleon Dynamite reference.

 

[Tytalus]

So he interrupted some kind of even the school had planned with the Miss America? I can understand the administrators getting pissed, but suspension is way too far.

 

[redpillrage33]

Harmless prank, no need for a freakin' suspension.

From the story: "While he has scores of new Twitter followers and Facebook friend requests, Farves said he remains without a date for his school's May 10 prom."

He has also apologized for taking the focus of the event away from Ms. America's "diversity" message and says he feels bad for disrupting an event the school worked so hard to plan.

Doesn't matter. He wins.

How many high school achievements follow you through life?

Does being the star quarterback or shooting the winning basket at the big game going to be something people recognize you for later in life? Are you going to immediately be popular when you enrol in college because of the hilarious prank you pulled on your English teacher senior year?

Nope.

Is being the kid who asked out Miss America going to score you points for the next decade?

Absolutely.

Sure, people aren't going to recognize you in public, but you've got a great story that is immediately going to give you some very desirable DHV any time it "comes up naturally" in conversation.

Don't disagree with you at all. My only points were 2:

1. Surprised he remains without a date for prom after his move (maybe this is by choice - if so bravo); and

2. Disappointed he is cow-towing to the PC police when his actions were harmless. Although he might have had to suck it up and do this to avoid an even larger suspension.

Another thing that strikes me, it says in the story that the school attempted to talk him out of it when they got wind it might happen. He said it was too late at that point and he was "in the zone". While I applaud him for not caving to the school, it proves the axiom about loose lips. If he'd kept it tighter he might not be facing a suspension at all.

 

[caracal]

Just watched the vid. He gave her a plastic flower and asked to get a selfie with her. Okay that's pretty lame. That's orbiter behavior. Also his proposal for her to come to the prom with him in front of a crowded auditorium is akin to a painful megatron marriage proposal in that it puts her on the spot.

Props for making a move, but he needs a few months of RVF-prescribed lifestyle advice to hone his game.

Yep, but what other chance was he going to get? They don't live in the same city, don't have the same social circles... This dude had one chance and he went for it even if it didn't work out. Good on him.

 

[Christian McQueen]

"That'll teach him to use direct game."

^Handing a girl a plastic flower and asking for a selfie isn't direct game. It isn't game at all.

 

[unbowed]

"That'll teach him to use direct game."

^Handing a girl a plastic flower and asking for a selfie isn't direct game. It isn't game at all.

If this was the reaction to the kid's "puppy dog" approach, I can only imagine what they would have done had he gone balls to the wall direct.

 

[porscheguy]

It takes balls to put yourself out there like he did.