Hi am Tartan Shortbread Jock

[Atlanta Kiltie]

Welcome from Atlanta Georgia.

[Steeplechase]

Welcome from South Carolina.

[SteveB]

Hello and a warm Celtic from Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Always grand to have members on the forum from Scotland. Surfing around this board may replace the telly as your hobby.
There are several of us on the board who are teachers, and provide our instruction whilst kilted. I teach religious education on Sunday to kindergarten and first graders. Several of my students have convinced their parents to let them wear the kilt to church. The school director has referred to my class as the Tartan Army. 18 children and 12 are kilted most weeks, representing 7 clans, and two generic tartans on those without known Scot ancestry.

There are two primary schools here that have school uniforms in tartan. Both require the girls to wear a gathered tartan skirt, while the boys are in tartan kilt. Both wear polo type shirts of the same colour, with the school logo affixed. same colour hose as the shirt, neat brogues, and school logo baseball hats.

The headmaster of one of these is a member of the same church that I attend as well as serves on some of the same committees in the community council. It took over a year for the students to figure out that whatever rag they did on the morning bus ride, or on the underground, would be relayed to their school. I ride the same routes and would see them all, as well as I clerk at the store near the school. They also had an adult friend, as some of the lads would be given a wee bit of grief over being in kilt, from the students of other schools where trousers are worn, as I will speak up for them, and always I am kilted.

We strive to be a family friendly forum. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. We will appreciate your point of view on the board as a representative of today's Scotland. You will find some of your neighbours here on the board as well.

Slainte