Another highschooler barred from prom.

[chacbalam]

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_108191621.html

Well It looks as if another prospective member of this board has been barred from attending his highschool prom. So far today a friend and two customers have told me about this story.

You know its too bad that the fashion police have confused "traditional dress" with "wearing a dress". What is really weird is that this time the kilt was compared to wearing shorts. I mean a skirt I can understand but shorts.

I have too say that he looks really sharp too bad the picture is at such a bad angle.

Check out my gallery if the link doesn't work.

[Jewddha]

That sad, really bloody sad, but I say good on him for not taking it off. We'll see how my school deals with it...

[Manu]

Very sad situation...It just shows how ignorant and closeminded our educational system is. But Im sure they let the other guys wear their "slacks" hanging in the middle of their behind with no problems whatsoever. tisk, tisk, tisk.

[Macman]

What school do you go to, Jewddha? I graduated from Vic High, and I know I wouldn't have had any trouble wearing a kilt to a formal event at the school. The principal at the time was a piper and had been an officer in the Canadian Scottish Regiment during the Second World War. He'd be shaking his head at the situation in this thread!
Cheers,
David

[Macman]

What school do you go to, Jewddha? I graduated from Vic High, and I know I wouldn't have had any trouble wearing a kilt to a formal event at the school. The principal at the time was a piper and had been an officer in the Canadian Scottish Regiment during the Second World War. He'd be shaking his head at the situation in this thread!
Cheers,
David

[Avonlea22]

I can understand the schools point of view in trying to enforce a particular dress code, but because there are so many ethnicities represented these days, they really need to be a bit more lenient. I think I would have carried a dictionary with me so that i could show that kilts are not shorts, but by definition, skirts. Apparently skirts were not banned.

Well, kudos for him for making the point. I wonder if his date was pissed at him, or she supported him. It didn't really say.

[Jewddha]

Macman, i go to Oak Bay, I'm not gradding until next year, but I do intend to take the kilt to school.

[awoodfellow]

and no doubt, he was the best and most appropriately dressed young man at the ball.

And if an Islamic student in appropriate Zaytuna Cloak arrived, what would have been the position of the school officials?

i understand the school having a dress code for extraneous functions. i do not understand the short-sightedness of the school officials. ... an "Except For Traditional Dress" clause should be implemented.

stronger fronts have been created with less than 500 people. we are 500+ strong. we should being the designing of "The Preservation of Traditional Dress Society", in the truest sense of the words.

brose

[kiltie as charged]

That is a shame that a place ao learning could not let the young man wear a kilt.Sounds a bit clised minded to me.

My younger son has worn a kilt to school several times and has not had any promblems with the teachers. Although some of the other students have given him a hard time about the "skirt" thing he just brushes it aside and asks why they wear their pants down to their knees.

[phil h]

it boggles my mind,how, in this day and age,in the
so-called civilised world.we still see this kind of thing,and isn't America supposed to be the big melting pot?