Kilt or No Kilt?

[CDNSushi]

Thank you, everyone, for taking an interest in my nephew and the wearing of the kilt. The battle's o'er! Commonsense prevaileth.
Hamish will be allowed to wear my kilt at his graduation. The school board made that decision this afternoon.

Again, congratulations! I realize that a big reason for joining us here was probably to elicit support for this cause, but I hope you may also pull up a chair, kick off yer boots and stay to chat for a while.

You'd be in good company with other Albertan kilt-wearers, and we have a very friendly and helpful bunch as well.

[ExDragoon]

I just saw this on the CBC News website. Here's the link to the item....
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...s-calgary.html
For me, this makes up for the Habs not making it past the Flyers. Score at the end of this series....Common Sense - 4, Stupidity - 0.

Good for you Hamish.
Karl

[GreenDragon]

One of my nephews is graduating from high school next month in the town of Raymond, Alberta, Canada. He asked if it would be okay to wear my Forbes tartan (muted) kilt. He was told, absolutely not! The reason? A dress code. I was so pleased he would want to wear my kilt, made for me about 18 years ago at a princely sum by one of the finest kiltmakers in Scotland. How many thousands of young men have worn kilts for graduation in countries around the world? Needless to say, I was disappointed my nephew, who would wear the kilt with great respect, had been denied this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. There has been some media attention and a family friend created a Facebook support page. A hundred people and more have posted comments.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/...14277515281104

As much as I agree with the Westwind School Division superintendent that there is a dress code for graduation, I believe the reason for enforcing the code is that some fool embarrassed the school last year by wearing a kilt and doing who knows what.

I am not sure that Hamish would be defiant and create a scene, but I have advised his mother that there's more than one way to skin a cat: He could wear trews or he could distribute patches of tartan to students to carry with them (just as was done a couple hundred years ago when tartan was banned).

So you're the aforementioned uncle (as mentioned in one of the news articles i read) from whom Hamish acquired his kilt. Fantastic!

I'm glad to see that the school has given him permission to wear his kilt to graduation.

Tell Hamish congratulations for me.

[toadinakilt]

Huzzah! Excellent news.

[wildrover]

Kilt on!

Congratulations!

[BobsYourUncle]

Congratulations to Celtic Cowboy and his nephew! We can all rejoice in this victory. This could not have happened without the internet to publicize the situation and mobilize support. What better illustration of the power of the internet to stand up to government, bureaucrats and multinational corporations? The internet may save democracy yet....

[Good Egg]

Bobs me-thinks you maybe right. Although this is a relatively trivial matter in the sense that nobody was going to die or indeed get even slightly hungry never-the-less oppression starts at the low level.

The petty bureaucrats and irritants in life have now been warned: up with this we will not put!