I'm going to be very unpopular here, but the principal should have been supported. Everyone, including society loses here.

I know all about kilts being expressions of all kinds of stuff, and they should not be confused with cross-dressing, but there's a more important issue here: schools no longer teach in the US; they are primarily means of indoctrinating kids in PC behavior and free baby sitting services.

This is one more instance of the PC Police further dimishing the already diminished authority of the school administrator. No wonder our schools can't teach and our kids can't read or do a little math! Instead of using this as an instance to correct the principal's ignorance and working out a solution, the principal is forced to "apologize"--which now means exactly nothing other than a "you win" for the kid--and the kid learns that all he has to do is whine to his mother if he doesn't like the rules.

And mom learns that all she has to do is whine to the board if she does't like the rules. Her baby is, no doubt, perfect, without flaw, and should never be corrected.

And principal learns that if he (or is it a she?) should avoid discipline because he/she won't get any backing from the board if a parent whines. So from now on, stay in your office,fill out paperwork, and don't get into any discipline until there's a killing.

And meanwhile, Johnny can't read, Alice can't do a little simple algebra, let alone trig or calculus, and we're all happy in our PC tax payer funded nanny world.

If you think I exagerate, try talking to a public school teacher, and then ask yourself why a great percentage of public school teachers send their own kids to private schools! I don't think this is about kilts at all; it's about schools being systematically destroyed.

That kid would not have been permanently damaged by changing his clothes and learning that sometimes we have to go by the dictates of the "boss," whether we like it or not, whether it's fair or not, and whether it even makes sense. (Ever had a job with a knucklehead for a boss? Ask Riverkilt et al about it. I rest my case on that one.)

Now he can wear his kilt, be a hero to the other spoiled brats for "sticking it to the man," and know that from now on, whatever he doesn't like his mother will fix.

I am through venting now. I will retire to the corner to await the slings and arrows of outraged fellow kilters, but I have read over these ranting, and I stand by them.