Fair play to him

[Gob]

YORK, Pennsylvania - Miss America is asking a Pennsylvania school district to reconsider the punishment of a high school senior who asked her to be his prom date during the question-and-answer portion of an assembly.




The York Dispatch newspaper reported on Sunday that Nina Davuluri posted a statement on the Miss America Organization's Facebook page saying she contacted Central York High School to ask officials to rethink the three-day in-school suspension issued to 18-year-old Patrick Farves.

Davuluri says her travel schedule will prevent her from attending the dance with Farves.

School officials knew Farves intended to ask her to prom and warned him not to do it.

Fellow students cheered afterward, but Farves was suspended for misbehaving.

He apologised for disrupting Thursday's event.

Davuluri was there to talk about the importance of science, technology, engineering and maths studies.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/teenage-boy ... z2zTOkvMen

[Scooter]

He was warned not to try making her visit to the school all about him. Sorry, but if there is a lesson that many of today's kids need to learn, it's that they are not the centre of the universe.

[Lord Jim]

He was warned not to try making her visit to the school all about him.

I really see that completely differently...

It seems pretty clear to me that it is the school administrators who chose to impose this grossly disproportionate punishment who have succeeded spectacularly at making "her visit to the school all about him"...

Had they decided to just let his question pass, (or give him something like an afternoon's detention for asking the question after he had been told not to) this incident (and Mr. Farves) would be unknown to the larger public, and it would have amounted to nothing more than a light-hearted humorous moment at what sounds like an otherwise rather dry event... ("Davuluri was there to talk about the importance of science, technology, engineering and maths studies")

Instead, thanks to their action, the story's gone global and Mr. Farves winds up on The Today Show and Goodmorning America...

Not exactly the outcome one would have hoped for if the lesson one wanted to teach a teenager was that "they are not the center of the universe"...

Seems to me that the results clearly indicate that the officials at Central York High School would have been better advised to yank the poles out of their collective asses and let the moment pass...

Hopefully this episode has taught them that the universe doesn't revolve around them....

[Long Run]

Good post, but while there is probably no pronounced difference between Farves and Favre, that sort of thing will get you eaten alive on this board. Just ask CP as he drives around in his Caddilac (suppose that's Caddy with a couple of very big head lights?).

[Lord Jim]

Thanks for the heads up Long Run...you're absolutely right

I'm going to fix it before anyone else sees it...please don't tell anybody...

[Joe Guy]

I'm going to fix it before anyone else sees it...please don't tell anybody...

I see nothing!