Quote Originally Posted by jumary View Post
My students (grade 6 English) don't say much about the piping. I think they are used to it! However, I am scheduled to play for our elementary grade kids soon, and that should be fun. Their questions about the kilt will be funny. My colleagues and the parents are much more interested.

I am not sure about district regulations, but my school is private, and they are fine with the kilt. I think they are going to ask me to play at more events. If I am lucky, I will start getting paid to play at some gigs outside of school.
I brought in some of my SportKilts for TartanDay a few weeks back, and I found that the boys, none of whom knew whether or not they were Scottish, were really into it. They wanted to try them on (over trousers, of course), and were very excited by the "manliness" they felt wearing the kilt. The girls...they weren't into it. I suspect they may not yet be mature enough to deviate from their learned ideas of what a boy ought to dress like. It made for some fun, diverting class discussion outside of our rather dreary Frederick Douglass stuff (we're following the New York State modules). I hope you get to have some fun conversations with your student as well!

Good luck with future piping!