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Female coach fired for taking a student to prom
05-23-2012, 02:05 PM
Doesn't sound like it was sexual at all, although it is amusing that America's pervasive paranoid fear of child molesters lurking in every shadow is finally biting women in the ass too.
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Female coach fired for taking a student to prom
05-23-2012, 02:44 PM
Her husband is 73 and the co-founder of Nike, She is 41.
He married 32 years younger than himself.
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. She served as a volunteer high school track and field coach.
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Female coach fired for taking a student to prom
05-23-2012, 03:49 PM
I don't care about the child molestation laws in this case because the USA's prom customs are crazy. Requiring someone to go "with a date" (and thus in a romantic context) is very unnatural, attention whoring, and discriminating to everyone who happens to be single or without prospects at the time... and that goes for both genders.
Other than fraternities, it is truly one of the USA's most idiotic exports.
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