Utah school forces student to change out of kilt

[1oldsarge]

This made it to the Associated Press.

Utah school forces student to change out of kilt

WEST HAVEN, Utah – The principal of a Utah middle school has been asked to apologize for forcing a kilt-wearing student to change his clothes.

Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart says Craig Jessop has been asked to extend an apology to 14-year-old student Gavin McFarland of Hooper after the school official's comments Wednesday.

Gavin says he wore the kilt twice in the past two weeks to Rocky Mountain Junior High as a prop for an art project. Jessop told the boy that the outfit could be misconstrued as cross-dressing.

Taggart says the district recognizes the kilt as an expression of the boy's Scottish heritage and that the kilt was not inappropriate.

Kilts are traditional Scottish apparel generally worn by men for formal or special occasions.

[ghostlight]

Good on the school district for correcting the mistake.

[Roderick]

Silly.

Kilts are a very male piece of attire. I realise I'm preaching to the choir here, but I mean that they have always struck me as necessarily masculine. Yes, there are similarities to skirts worn by women, but any time I have seen a lady in a kilt my instinctive reaction is to think that she's in drag. It reminds me of when Eric Idle and Michael Palin would dress up as women for Monty Python sketches.

[Phogfan86]

When I was in high school, overalls were expressly prohibited in our school dress code because, administrators said, it could be misconstrued that we were making fun of farmers. I am not making that up.

Ever since I was 14, anytime educators do something that really seems uneducated, I'm no longer surprised.

[BEEDEE]

Breaking news!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_kilt_controversy

Brian

:ootd:

[Flag Folder]

I have a problem getting my mind around prohibiting something because someone else might misunderstand why you are doing it. Not misunderstands but might... So before you do something you should make sure everyone totally understands why you are doing what ever it is you are doing?
Bahh! Thanks I feel better now.
It sort of reminds me of Article 2 of the Bill of no Rights that says 'You do not have the right to never be offended.'
Bruce

[Zardoz]

Here's a link to the original article;
http://www.standard.net/live/news/173494/

[Sionnach]

Meanwhile, just down the road at Ogden's Ben Lomond High, young men are encouraged to wear the kilt if they so choose, this in recognition of Utah's pioneering ties to Scottish settlers.

[Colonel MacNeal]

Utah is great. It takes some of the heat off of the South.

[Colonel MacNeal]

Silly.

Kilts are a very male piece of attire. I realise I'm preaching to the choir here, but I mean that they have always struck me as necessarily masculine. Yes, there are similarities to skirts worn by women, but any time I have seen a lady in a kilt my instinctive reaction is to think that she's in drag. It reminds me of when Eric Idle and Michael Palin would dress up as women for Monty Python sketches.

I agree with you. Aside from members of pipe & drum bands, women in knee length kilts look very odd to me. Women look better in kilted skirts, whether they are long, or short.