Quote Originally Posted by Archangel
Yeah, I thought of that too, and looked for a picture, no luck. I left the principal that "out" in my email. However, the father, in the article, said that Nathan had researched and bought the family tartan so it looked like everything was traditional and within reason.
It said he had done research on his Scots heritage, saved up for the kilt and bought it himself. I'm willing to bet it was a traditional tartan kilt, possibly a tank.

Today I was riding around at work thinking about this and what a bad example for tolerance and a poor role model for accepting the differences in others, the principal chose to be. The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

How are kids supposed to learn to accept differences in others when their principal's solution is to just reject and ban it as being disruptive? I know the kinds of skimpy dresses the girls wear to these events (as someone else mentioned earlier) and I don't think there is ANY excuse for banning a boy in an appropriately fitted traditional or modern/casual kilt.

Like many of you here, I wear a kilt on a regular basis (not at work, but off-duty, about 80% of the time) and while the inappropriate reactions I receive are really rare, I keep thinking that people like this Mr. McClard are just reinforcing and actually TEACHING this intolerant behavior to future generations!

It sickens me. :sad: