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[chasem]

OOOOOOOH Chasem!!!! Good thing this is a family oriented board, or I'd not be able to let that one pass. :P

Doc I think we all know what I was going for!

And Gallant, I think you're probably right. However, I'd shoot for comfort over visibility... besides, if I'm conscious enough to worry about it, I'll be keeping my legs together anyway.

[Jewddha]

James, too true, my only concern is really for school, I've taken it around town already, and nothing is more natural, but I'm just a bit antsy about school, because knowing my schools administration board, it COULD be problematic.

[Riverkilt]

Jewddha, take courage.

There's a long established precedent...17 years ago...just in case you don't know about this check the Nov '04 UK Newsletter

http://www.utilikilts.com/news11-04.htm

The article says :

Utilikilts serve a special niche for me: in 1988 (if memory serves) for our first Tartan Day, I wore my regular kilt to work as an Admissions Counselor at the University of California, Davis. Not only was it our first Congressionally chartered Tartan Day, but it was also the start of UC Davis' "Diversity Week", along with a function we call Welcome Week, where prospective students and their parents can tour the campus, and get a feel for the University.
I had an 8am presentation to high school students at our law school, and when I returned to my office, our assistant director stopped in and told me that wearing a kilt to work was "inappropriate", and that I needed to remove it or be sent home. I told him to put it in writing, which he did, via e-mail. I sent his e-mail to our national membership chairperson (I'm a regional commissioner for the MacDonalds), and within 24 hours, I was getting a ton of supportive e-mails from all over the world.
It strikes me as odd that a university which claims it supports diversity and abhors discrimination of all types would take this stance. Perhaps I wasn't "PC" enough for them. This stupidity ended about a week and a half later when Stuart Morrison, a retired appelate court justice and former High Commissioner for the Clan Morrison, offered to represent me in a lawsuit where the university would be called to task for three separate civil rights violations. They caved immediately, and within an hour of receiving my copy of the e-mail from Stuart (another went to our chancellor's office and the University President's office in Berkeley, I had a hand delivered letter of apology. Now, I wear my kilts any time I feel like it!
Thanks for making such a wonderful product. I can't imagine life without my Utilikilt-Scottish Levi's!!
Yours,
Jerry Griffin

There's a photo of Jerry in the newsletter.

Walk the campus with pride.

Ron

[Jewddha]

Oh it's not so much the administration, as the students. I'm sure y'all must at least have a friend with a kid in high school (or if you can remember it yourself), it can be a pretty discouraging, at times even downright terrifying. I'm thinking baout giving it a shot sometime next week, but we shall see.

[GMan]

Oh it's not so much the administration, as the students. I'm sure y'all must at least have a friend with a kid in high school (or if you can remember it yourself), it can be a pretty discouraging, at times even downright terrifying. I'm thinking baout giving it a shot sometime next week, but we shall see.

Good luck, you got what it takes Mike You will do well.

[Riverkilt]

Okay, sorry, threw me there...you look VERY fit in your gallery pics...not like anyone would want to make light with you...think you'll be fine when the time comes - and will be amazed at the female attention.

Ron

[KiltedBishop]

But if you are a teacher in a high school beware of the female attention!

unless it is from fellow teachers.

or their 18 and ready to graduate.

hehehe

[Alan H]

Oh it's not so much the administration, as the students. I'm sure y'all must at least have a friend with a kid in high school (or if you can remember it yourself), it can be a pretty discouraging, at times even downright terrifying. I'm thinking baout giving it a shot sometime next week, but we shall see.

I remember. But where you live, my friend, is a lot more open-minded than some parts of the country. I bet you'll be just fine. Remember that if you look "different" then some kids will give you grief and there's nothing to be done about it. Others will respect you for being your own guy. A lot of those people will never say anything, while the people with small brains will make a lot of noise. Understand that if you deal with it in an honorable and tolerant matter, but stand up for yourself, you WILL get respect from your fellow students who have enough brains to understand. If someone is a jerk to you, then stand up for yourself, but don't be a jerk back to them. In the long run...and the run ain't that long, it will pay off. It will pay off in more ways than yuou can possibly imagine, it's not just about wearing a kilt to school. It's about understanding who you are and having the cajones to be that without getting in everyone's face about it.

Most of the kids at school will look a couple of times and then not think twice about it, honestly.

Be your own self, Jewddha, and if that means wearing that great new Freedom Kilt to school, then go for it.

[Gary]

My son and two of his friends wore kilts to high school one day for school spirit day. They hadn't made it 20 feet down the hall before an administrator asked them if they had something on underneath. All of them did, so he said he liked the kilts and to watch their backs. My son made it through the day without his kilt getting lifted, but his friends had theirs lifted too many times to count.

[Galant]

That last one I think belongs in the kilt lifting thread MOD? - nevertheless would the teacher go around asking the girls if they had something underneath?