Kilt or No Kilt?

**Jordan** · 21st May 10, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by Andy Proffitt

Wear the kilt and be nice...unless they try to throw him out. Then, in finest Highland fashion, start a brawl.

This gets my vote. Infact i would suggest any local kilties drop by on the big day or just before to talk to the principal and give him our regards

**CDNSushi** · 22nd May 10, 02:49 AM

Everyone, there is also a petition that you can sign... For those who are wondering how "a yank" might help in an otherwise local matter, this could be a good way to express your support more tangibly.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...r-no-kilt.html

**artificer** · 22nd May 10, 05:16 AM

I was #84 when I signed the petition.

**Lallans** · 22nd May 10, 06:46 AM

It seems as if this anti-kilt thing is more pervasive that one might have thought: I was just reading about the Jacob lad's story on NationalPost.com and they list other incidents all across the USA, some of them actually ethnically derogatory:

PASTE:
"The modern-day Braveheart isn’t the first to extend controversy over cultural expression to include a male’s right to wear a skirt and use a man purse. In Jackson, Mo., Nathan Warmack, 18, wore a kilt to his graduation ceremony. Before he hit the stage, principal Rick McClard told Mr. Warmack to find a pair of pants because he wasn’t “going to have students coming into the dance looking like clowns.” Other students of Scottish heritage, such as Matt McCarl, 17, of Stoneboro, Pa., and Miles Johnson in Jacksonville, Fla., were also asked to keep the tartan in the closet at a school ceremony.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05...#ixzz0ofJY1OtG "

UNPASTE ( The Post snuck in that link there, but fair enough I'll leave it in.)

It may be time to start organizing a Million Kilt March or something! I thought my 1960s high school was repressive but they would never have gone against someone's heritage apparel in this sort of way, not at the prom anyway.

**Mael Coluim** · 22nd May 10, 07:26 AM

#87 on the Petition and signed on the FB wall.
I stand kilted with, Hamish!!!

**Nighthawk** · 22nd May 10, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Oh no...

Yep. 'fraid so. I even posted links to the petition and Facebook page on my own Facebook page. Poor kid is screwed now...

**Bugbear** · 22nd May 10, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Yep. 'fraid so. I even posted links to the petition and Facebook page on my own Facebook page. Poor kid is screwed now...

Enlisting the army of the weird and dysfunctional.

**auld argonian** · 22nd May 10, 09:35 AM

I see by one of the more recent stories in the press that these good folks have contacted Craig Ferguson and asked if he would get involved.

God save those poor school admins if Craig starts up on them!

Best

AA