Suspending Prom Requests

I guess it might have been easier in my day or maybe it was just the lack of social media, but why would you get suspended for asking Miss America to prom?

According to a recent USA Today article, an eighteen year old got three days on in school suspension for asking Miss America...to prom.  What?

Let me go ahead and offend a giant swatch of people and say, why not?

First off, he attends school in York, Pennsylvania so I hate to have a bit of a bias, but how many girls are there in York, Pennsylvania you would even want to take out?  If the choices are local pickings or Miss America, I might be with the kid.

Two, according to the article, school officials at Central York High School caught wind of the possibility this young man might pop the question ahead of time.  If the question was going to be that disruptive...why did they let him ask any questions?  Seems like if you were worried about disruption, you wouldn't open the door to the mouse's cage for the cat.

Finally, the kid asks the question, Miss America laughs it off, and you suspend the kid.  Who is making the bigger deal out of the situation...the kid, or the school?  Central York High School is now in USA Today for disciplining their student, but if they had laughed it off, he would have no coverage, and no one would have known the better anything happened that day.

Is it really that disruptive for Miss America to be asked to prom?  Was it disruptive for students to cheer on one of their own who had the courage to do something most grown ups wouldn't do?  I am guessing

Given the problems in American education and discipline I am a little shocked this is the way they school decided to go, but why worry about kids bringing guns and knives to school when we can worry about whether or not they ask out Miss America?  Why worry about whether or not high school graduates can read their diplomas, the much more disruptive force in the American economy is whether or not a kid asks Miss America to prom?

I am wondering who needs an education on self control and discipline here.  For some reason, I don't think it is the eighteen year old asking Miss America to his prom.