Kilt or No Kilt?

[artificer]

And we pay taxes and taxes and taxes. On cars the tax is 180% plus - of course - VAT 25%.

The trees do not grow up to the sky.

Therefore we must have some freedom regarding the way we dress.


Greg

Ah...

shame about the taxes, but at least you get to pay them in comfort

[Andy Proffitt]

Wear the kilt and be nice...unless they try to throw him out. Then, in finest Highland fashion, start a brawl.

[Jordan]

Wear the kilt and be nice...unless they try to throw him out. Then, in finest Highland fashion, start a brawl.

This gets my vote. Infact i would suggest any local kilties drop by on the big day or just before to talk to the principal and give him our regards

[CDNSushi]

Everyone, there is also a petition that you can sign... For those who are wondering how "a yank" might help in an otherwise local matter, this could be a good way to express your support more tangibly.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...r-no-kilt.html

[artificer]

I was #84 when I signed the petition.

[Lallans]

It seems as if this anti-kilt thing is more pervasive that one might have thought: I was just reading about the Jacob lad's story on NationalPost.com and they list other incidents all across the USA, some of them actually ethnically derogatory:

PASTE:
"The modern-day Braveheart isn’t the first to extend controversy over cultural expression to include a male’s right to wear a skirt and use a man purse. In Jackson, Mo., Nathan Warmack, 18, wore a kilt to his graduation ceremony. Before he hit the stage, principal Rick McClard told Mr. Warmack to find a pair of pants because he wasn’t “going to have students coming into the dance looking like clowns.” Other students of Scottish heritage, such as Matt McCarl, 17, of Stoneboro, Pa., and Miles Johnson in Jacksonville, Fla., were also asked to keep the tartan in the closet at a school ceremony.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05...#ixzz0ofJY1OtG "

UNPASTE ( The Post snuck in that link there, but fair enough I'll leave it in.)

It may be time to start organizing a Million Kilt March or something! I thought my 1960s high school was repressive but they would never have gone against someone's heritage apparel in this sort of way, not at the prom anyway.

[LANCER1562]

Signatory #153 here.

[Bugbear]

Actually, Nighthawk, I meant "dysfunctional." I'm usually more worried about the forum logging me off if I don't post quickly enough, than spelling correctly.
Ehh, I'm dysfunctional.

[Nighthawk]

Actually, Nighthawk, I meant "dysfunctional." I'm usually more worried about the forum logging me off if I don't post quickly enough, than spelling correctly.
Ehh, I'm dysfunctional.

I hate that!

[CDNSushi]

*News update:

Just logged onto FB and saw that Hamish posted 2 recent status updates in the past hour. Seems like the school district may have reversed their stance on his wearing the kilt at graduation and have acknowledged his rights.