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TOTALLY WORTH IT: High school senior suspended for asking Miss America to prom

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If Miss America visits your high school, and if it’s springtime, and if you don’t have a date to the senior prom, you’ve got to ask her to go with you. Right?

So what if you get suspended!

Such was the case for Patrick Farves, a senior at Central York High School, when the reigning Miss America, Nina Davuluri, came to the York, Pa. school on Thursday to give a speech about diversity and the value of science, engineering and math.

During the question-and-answer period that followed Davuluri’s speech, Farves asked Miss America to prom. And then he promptly got three-and-a-half days of in-school suspension as a result, reports the York Dispatch.

Farves, 18, got the brilliant idea to ask Miss America to the prom a few days before the assembly. He told a few people about his ingenuous scheme. And those people told a few more people. And then, this being high school, the whole school including teachers and administrators knew. (It’s not clear if he submitted his question for prescreening.)

About 10 minutes before Davuluri’s speech began, an unidentified school administrator advised Farves that asking Miss America to the prom would be “inappropriate,” explains the Dispatch.

Farves wouldn’t be browbeaten by some sorry bureaucrat, though. He apparently snuck his question in between two prescreened questions. He even presented Davuluri, 24, with a special, plastic, purple flower he had acquired in art class that morning.

The senior’s request was met with raucous cheering from the clearly impressed students in the audience.

Farves said he doesn’t think Davuluri said yes. At the time, his ego is placated by the fact that she didn’t say no, either.

“I never got a direct answer,” he told the Dispatch.

All the cheering made it hard to hear, apparently.

Farves then asked for a selfie with Davuluri. She told him, “Maybe later.”

The next questioner started the next question by asking: “Can I get another round of applause for my friend, Patrick.” (And the crowd again went wild.)

It was then that humorless, joyless school officials marched Favres out of the assembly and gave him the suspension.

Farves appeared to be much more diplomatic and philosophical about the incident than the school officials were or, frankly, could ever aspire to be. He said he can definitely understand their frustration.

“It wasn’t my intent,” he told the Dispatch.

“I did kind of overshadow what she was saying,” he also sanguinely admitted.

As for the prom, his plans are still up in the air.

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