Gentlemen of the jury (and Lazamataz), have you reached a verdict?
Posted on 05/24/2012 5:17:36 AM PDT by Loyalist
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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Gentlemen of the jury (and Lazamataz), have you reached a verdict?
He left the prom a track MAN!
She’s married to a 71 year old and dating 17 year olds. Talk about playing the field.
Did they make waffle pattern tread marks on her a$$ as she was kicked out the door?
She took the student to the prom to motivate him “to improve his English grades”. Ummmm.... is that some sort of code or what? Is that what they are calling it these days?!!
I don’t think this is THAT kind of story. When did Prom turn into anything more than a school dance?
She's dyslexic, she thought the boy was 71 also.
Never get involved with a woman crazier than you are ..."
Morley Dotes
“When did Prom turn into anything more than a school dance?”
The prom is suppose to be for the Junior and Senior students at the school and their dates. I am thinking the key word is “dates”.
As I said above, I don’t think this was THAT kind of story. Everything was on the up and up, if you read the story. She didn’t take him into the locker room in secret. Her husband was aware of the “date”, and the prom is public. Her own son was there and is on the same team. People should get their minds out of the gutter.
Big time. Easily capable of boiling a bunny rabbit.
Just saw this on TV. Appears to have been completely innocent, with full consent of her husband and the boy’s parents. A deputy assigned to investigate found nothing improper, just bad judgment.
My husband and I attended our daughter’s prom because she was chosen to sing. Teachers often attend the prom (at least they did in my day).
Here, here!
Brain dead school board.
She did a nice thing, supported by her husband and the boys parents, and they fire her. She might even have boosted the boys confidence around girls, and in a way that does not appear on a police blotter.
Mary Kay LeTourneau this is not...
Cool. She wasn't being paid. Now the school can pay someone to do a worse job! Unions win, taxpayers lose! The Obamanation is back in harmony.
She’s dyslexic, she thought the boy was 71 also.
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Good one
a volunteer high school track and field coach in Oregon
Guess she’ll have to find another ‘volunteer job’....
I think it happened during the Clinton Administration.
>> Easily capable of boiling a bunny rabbit.
If she can also carry an outboard motor from the swamp up to the truck and chop wood, I got some cousins who are looking for a woman — they’s hard to find out here.
I’ll wager the kid has been harmed far more by his coach’s firing. In fact, from reading the article it seems she was simply doing him a kindness. Like the saying goes, no good deed goes unpinished.
"The only thing we've done wrong is build them a new track and get uniforms and build them a powerhouse program," Jon Bowerman told the AP. "If she doesn't come back, I'm not coming back."
AFAICT, her "crime" was that she's still semi-hot (she's 41, after all). The school board is so stupid it's amazing they remember to breathe.
FWIW I agree with both of you.
I happen to agree with you on this one, completely.
“In the meantime, Jon Bowerman has said he will consider resigning from the program if his wife is not allowed to return, a stunning turn of events just weeks after the school officially inaugurated a brand new, state of the art track that was made possible by a trade of the family heirloom Bowerman waffle iron that Jon’s father, former Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, used to make running shoe soles for Nike that provided better traction.”
Geez...
She looks a little like Gingrich’s wife before all the surgery.
first all schools and “proms” should be separated, they should not be associated with each other.
I am sure the track coach is proud to see his daughter is an escort.
lol
dude,
these days prom=sex, ask any high schooler.
Plus there is TV influences... where GLEE had teachers calling kids who didn’t put out for Valentines Day “cold fish”
Cougar alert!
GUILTY!
1) Turn off the TV (I cut Glee off my schedule with the pilot and predicted that my daughter -- a music teacher -- would have nothing but trouble as long as it was on the air. I was right.)
2) Home school.
It's too bad that the crazies have taken 2 of the most memorable HS experiences -- choir and prom -- and turned them into major negatives. I was first aware of the prom business when my kids were that age. NONE of them went to the prom, except my oldest. And she had to go because she was chosen by her classmates to sing. As I said above, we were there too, so nothing untoward happened to her. My others wanted nothing to do with prom. This was in the late '70s and early '80s in TX. Sad.
The old man is 73, can you people not read?
First things first.
She is definitely not guilty. A very good looking woman without looking like she’s for sale on the corner or trying out for a Maxim cover.
The track team is for a school that has 78 students. 39 students are on the track team and they apparently are a state powerhouse.
This is what happens when the track coach is more powerful than the superintendent.
If she truly didn’t do anything wrong, she should get her job back. That being said, it was extremely poor judgement for an adult teacher to go with a student to the prom and slow dance with him. In today’s day and age, we read about teacher X involved with student Y so much that it makes parents heads spin. The prom is for the students and not the adults (the adults serve as chaperones). Unlike when I was in high school, there are a lot of students who now go just with their friends (and no dates).
Can’t blame her.
17 goes into 41 more than 73 does.
I received the same impression. The kid didn’t have someone to go with and she said she’d accompany him. I don’t get the feeling there was anything more to it than that.
“If she can also carry an outboard motor from the swamp up to the truck and chop wood, I got some cousins who are looking for a woman — they’s hard to find out here.”
Picture of the outboard motor and ax is a pre-req.
There is an old “Frazier” episode, Roz is coerced into going to the prom with someone that Frazier been tutoring, Hilarious!
There is an old “Frazier” episode, Roz is coerced into going to the prom with someone that Frazier been tutoring, Hilarious!
73 year-old.
That kind of comment is really bad to make. My guess is this is all completely innocent. In today's world it was a dumb thing for her to do but I doubt she had any designs on the lad.
I will believe the story is as was reported, that he did not have a date to the prom and she was being nice and said okay. Innocent, respectable person having no idea people's minds were so in the gutter.
Above board it may have been.
Well intentioned, etc.
It wasn’t WISE.
Just because she thought and her husband thought etc. etc. doesn’t make her choice appropriate.
Like it or not, actions by someone occupying this role are subject to scrutiny by school authorities and the community.
These days the teacher-student thing is totally out of control, adding to the “appearance” problem.
At our school prom there were lots of kids that did not come with dates. The school set up a dance card system for them. I think I even remember a couple of the teachers dancing with some of the students that were having a difficult time finding someone to dance with.
Yes, it was better to go with a date but it was not a "key" to attendance and those without a date were not locked out. Maybe they don't let kids in without a date any more.
I was so deprived--none of my high school teachers ever motivated me.
“Into the mud, Scum Queen.”
“Innocent, respectable person having no idea people’s minds were so in the gutter”.
Unfortunately, society is making adult-child sexual behavior legitimate. The teacher unions have helped make this possible, of course. How many times do you read about a teacher involved in a sexual relationship with a student? Ten years ago, it was teacher with a high school student. Now it is not uncommon to read teacher with a middle school student. Eventually, you know we will see cases involving a teacher with a elementary school student. Unlike when I was a kid, the lines between the behavior of adults and kids is getting blurred. It isn’t any wonder that the administration and some of the parents didn’t condone this behavior... whether it was done with good intentions or not. I hope she gets her job back but I don’t judge the adults in this situation that felt it was not a good idea. IMHO.
I agree with you.
Don’t some of you people on here READ the article before commenting?
Sheese...
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