Cheerleader asks autistic friend to prom with cookie cake

A Florida cheerleader created a “promposal” the use of a cookie cake to ask her friend from her school’s unique education classroom to the huge dance.

In a video taken Friday, January 29, Mikal Bartosik, 17, comes into the study room and shows Jonathan, 18, the cake, which he reads: “Will you visit the prom with me?” The boy straight away answers “yes!” and jumps around the room in joy. Bartosisk asks the youngster, who's on the autism spectrum, for a hug and the school room erupts in applause.

“It was like something you notice in films,” Jeanne Ladner, Park Vista high school’s speech pathologist and cheerleading teach, told the Palm seashore submit. “I cried.”

Bartosik and Jonathan (whose last call was no longer launched with the aid of the faculty district) have become buddies remaining year whilst she started out consuming lunch with a set of special education college students, the Palm seashore publish pronounced.

different college students criticized her for sitting with “the ones bizarre youngsters’ however she made it a teaching lesson.

“I informed them they simply have extraordinary social troubles, one of a kind methods of speaking,” she told the newspaper. “except, when you get to realize them, they’re now not that distinct and they’re manner nicer than youngsters with out disabilities.”

The song famous person had been thinking about taking one of the unique ed boys to the Lake forest, Fla., faculty’s prom, for two years, however determined to take action while she found out none of the special ed college students went to final year’s prom.

understanding Jonathan— who she called sweet, pleasant and very social—desired to go to promenade beat taking a random guy, she stated, including that it’s now not a charity date.

“in my view, I assume that is going to be the maximum unique prom for me due to the fact I’ll be making a person else glad,” she told the newspaper.

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m no longer getting a crappy get dressed and just winging it,” Bartosik advised the Palm beach publish. “I’m going all out for this boy. I’m going to make him look absolutely exact.”