High School QB Keeping A Fourth Grade Promise To Take A Girl With Downs Syndrome To Prom Is Just An Awesome Dude

Source – When Mary Lapkowicz and Ben Moser were in fourth grade, their teacher, Tracey Spogli, noticed how hard Ben worked to include Mary, who has Down syndrome, in games and activities.

“He watched over her constantly,” Spogli recalled, as the students posed for photos outside Mary’s home on May 8, 2015. “If she was looking like she wasn’t having fun, he would go over and talk to her. He would pull her in to what ever activity they were doing. He just always watched out for her.”

[I]n sixth grade Mary moved to the Central Dauphin school district, where her father, Tom Lapkowicz, works as a math teacher. By the time Mary reached high school, she was assisting her father’s work with the high school football team as equipment manager.

Meanwhile, Ben had also gone into football at Susquehanna, playing as quarterback.

“She talked about going to prom,” Mary’s father said. “I’d taken her to homecoming and stuff, but she had prom on her mind all along.”

But Mary didn’t know that Ben would follow up on that vow he had made so long ago.

“We got balloons and I wrote ‘prom’ on it,” Ben said. “I presented her with the balloons and asked her to go to prom with me.”

Any way you shake it, this is just a real sweet story. I genuinely admire a kid like this who probably could have gone to the prom with any girl on the strength of being a football QB but not only stuck to his word, he also legit made the life of this girl who’s almost definitely had a rough go of things. That’s just an awesome gesture I was definitely not anywhere near emotionally mature enough to do in high school. I can’t give enough props to Ben for being a complete stand-up guy.

The bigger question is whether high school girls have the emotional depth to be able to appreciate how awesome of a move this is. They should be all over this dude’s dick for being so chill. So help me God if I find out any of them are dicks to this kid or this girl I will find them and dump pig’s blood all over them and then really hope and pray they don’t have telekinetic powers.

(H/t Cass)