I assume that "site based management practices" is just BS for "I'm here, you aren't: mind your own business". Nice...very nice.

reminds me of the all purpose letter that Alexander Wolcott sent to anyone who wrote to disagree with him:

Dear Sir,

you may be right.

Sincerely,

A, Wolcott

Honestly, not unlike some governments, most institutions have gotten hip to how to deal with public outcries about unpopular policy decisions and stall and obfuscate until they blow over. I swear that schools especially have developed a handbook of procedures to defuse bad public relations. The only thing to do is keep bad decisions like this in the public eye in a reasonable way and to work your way up the "chain of command" until somebody at the top decides that they want to make it all go away.

I really don't buy the "...if we let one person do something it puts us on a slippery slope..." argument that institutions try to pawn off on you. It is a crock.

I'm also getting tired of hearing that proclaiming one's ties to Scottish culture or heritage by wearing a kilt is some kind of over-the-top statement. What's the problem here? Someone should demand a very specific reason for these refusals other than some nebulous excuse that it's "against policy" or "it's a disruption". If these administrators have a SPECIFIC reason for disallowing this (and it better be a good one) then they should state it instead of hiding behind double-speak. I expect that they figger that they can just keep making excuses, the event will come and go and the poor student will have to decide whether he wants to go kilt or no and once it's over, it's over and they won the point just by "killing the clock", so to speak.

Try to teach kids to be honest and forthright and then you have to put up with this kind of nonsense on the part of school adminstrators...

Best

AA