Sorry, I must disagree. Does the teacher do push ups everyday in class, has he sported a blue Mohawk for the last year? If the answer to these questions is yes than the wearing of the kilt (which is on a par with these two) is reasonable . If on the other hand he has not done these things, then the wearing of the kilt is unreasonable. From the tone of the article, his kilt wearing was the first of three 'trials' he had to perform.

We have all heard the expression 'Drop and give me twenty!'. Is it said to people who have earned praise or is it said as a punishment.

This is an humiliation - self imposed - but still done as an humiliation. It reduces the kilt to a mere piece of costume - a tutu, a bussle, fishnet stockings, a kimono, swim flippers and a thong - all would be humiliating in the classroom environment.

If the teacher wore a kilt on a daily basis, then it would be standard, normal, ordinary, not newsworthy.

This is not a good advertisement for kilt wearing.

Regards

Chas