FMX wrote:
I meant that somebody must have put in a fair bit of effort to get Miss America to come and speak at the school and there was probably some purpose behind that. We don't know what it was, but it surely wasn't for this guy to ask her out in public.
From what I've seen him asking her out was only a short moment, and she didn't mind, so it did not detract from the event. Some of the other kids found it funny. All in all, it seems to me to be just a light-hearted moment. The punishment is draconian, as a school it is your mission to teach children, and that's why denying kids education is a horrible punishment. To me the only valid reason for suspension is if they excessively disturb the learning environment of other kids, not for something as innocent as this. I think the school officials are just pissed off because he ignored their ad hoc rule. May have hurt their feelings of self-importance.