What's with these uneducated educators?

[Big Paul]

Can you imagine Nathans reaction when he finds out about all the supporting emails hitting the school?

Another member in the making!:-P

[motorman4life]

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:

[RockyR]

I wrote an email early this morning and haven't gotten a response...

Has ANYONE gotten a response from the Principal?

[cavscout]

Emails to the Principal are nice but to truely make them effective we should also copy his superiors to include the mayor and or governor. When the proverbial ***** begins to succumb to gravity on an incline that's when things start changing.

[macwilkin]

Emails to the Principal are nice but to truely make them effective we should also copy his superiors to include the mayor and or governor. When the proverbial ***** begins to succumb to gravity on an incline that's when things start changing.

School board would be more effective. I have met our governor, and quite frankly, I don't think he'd give a fig about it, one way or the other. ;)

Cheers,

Todd

[RockyR]

I google'd nathan's name and got another article. Perhaps someone with some free time may want to contact the writer (apparently, she works for CBS) and ask her to contact Nathan on our behalf and let him know that we're behind him.

http://randomgenealogy.com/2005/11/1...earing-a-kilt/

[starbkjrus]

I'm so hacked off that I can't see straight!!

Below is my letter to this idiot of a principal (but first -).

I do not agree with the statement that he has no control over the dress code. My longtime Partner has been a principal and headmaster for over 30 years and believe me -- it's this guy's call. No one else's.

KCW (Rob), I appreciate the idea but I don't think its a good idea for all us "old farts" to start emailing the kid with support. He's a minor after all. I think it's a better idea to email the principal, school board and the media. It's probably in this thread somewhere but can anyone tell me what city/county this is?? I fully intend to followup with my statement in the letter below to demand this idiot's firing.

Letter:

Dr. Principal McClard

As I am sure you are aware of by now the wearing of the kilt is quite honorable and normal to much of western society.

The young gentleman in question should have been welcomed in his kilt as a statement of how much he respects his Scottish heritage as most of us Scots do. The fact that you decided it was "disruptive" was simply a matter of your own prejudice.

I would imagine that you allow all sorts of "disruptive" dress at these affairs such as God knows now many piercings and women (and men) wearing all sorts of "suggestive" attire. Goodness knows these days young women mainly dress like what a gentleman would delicately call a slut. Yet you tolerate this and not a kilt??

Your name suggests a long line of Scottish heritage and you should certainly know what that means. The kilt is a traditional men's garment with a LONG history to be proud of.

The statement you made that if this were a "religious" garment then "of course" we would have made an exception ENRAGES me. How dare you even consider that there is a difference between religion and heritage when it comes to modes of dress. I'm sure that if any person of Asian or African descent showed up in a cultural garment that you would not have had the guts to say a word. As well you shouldn’t.

It is a sad day when we see some blighted idiot abuse his authority to discriminate against someone for simply showing pride in where he comes from.

You sir should immediately enroll in a diversity class. In the meantime I mean to write to your school board and suggest immediate dismissal!

Sincerely,
Charles "Dee" Kellett
Reston, Virginia
AND
Proudly Celtic and working to stamp out IGNORANCE in the world!

[starbkjrus]

I google'd nathan's name and got another article. Perhaps someone with some free time may want to contact the writer (apparently, she works for CBS) and ask her to contact Nathan on our behalf and let him know that we're behind him.

http://randomgenealogy.com/2005/11/1...earing-a-kilt/

VERY good idea. I'm trying to post to that website w/ a comment but they require registration so I'm waiting on a password for that.

[Robin]

Slightly upset kiltwearers protest ;)

[Southern Breeze]

Slightly upset kiltwearers protest ;)

This makes me think of those Capitol One ads,with the barbarian hordes.

Has anyone heard anything else about this or gotten a reply?