I am a school teacher in the same district of where this happened. I also live about 3 minutes away from the school that it happened at. I know some people have been pretty hard on the principla, I think it was just a stupid mistake. He apologized to the student and everything is cool with the student, his parents, and the school.

Another point I want to make is how brave this student was to wear this kilt to school. I know the demographics of this particular school. I can almost bet that most of the students never even heard of a kilt, let alone seen one. It took a lot of guts for this student to wear it to school. I plan on e-mailing the student and congratulating him.

Second point: I think the title of this post needs to be changed. Although the Associated Press titled that way, it is not a good description of the original intent of the article (not suprised the AP spinned this in a negative direction). The original title was:

Kilt creates a stir, then an educational opportunity.

I plan on laminating this article (I get the local newspaper that wrote the story) and putting it up on my door at school. Everyone will see it as they walk in.

Brice