The Goodness of America
Care to Dance?
Eight-year-old Avery Cox of Van Buren, Arkansas, had hoped to attend the school’s February 10 daddy-daughter dance with her father. His passing in December not only broke her heart, but also dashed her hopes of going to the dance — that is, until her school’s resource officer stepped in.
Van Buren Middle School resource officer Corporal Nick Harvey came up with the idea of asking his fellow officers to volunteer to escort students without fathers to the dance.
Harvey reached out to Avery’s mother to request permission to escort Avery to the dance. He then asked Avery himself. “The last thing I wanted was to get rejected by a second-grader,” Harvey joked to KFSM-TV.
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