If there’s anything that causes some unspoken anxiety in high school, it isn’t the homework load or college essays. It’s simply anticipating whether or not you’ll be asked to the homecoming dance.
Not everyone gets asked to the dance, but a certain group of girls tends to get overlooked more than others—the girls in the special education classes.
But this year, all of that changed when a few of Dan Bowen’s senior leadership students came to him with an idea.
They asked the teacher if he thought it would be appropriate for them to ask the girls from the special ed class to homecoming.
“They made it clear to me that, in their words, it ‘wasn’t out of pity’ that they would invite these girls,” Dan says. “They just wanted to ask a girl to Homecoming who may not have otherwise been asked.”
The boys wanted Mr. Bowen to check with the special ed teachers as well as the parents of each of the girls—all of which were excited about the boys’ plan.
