Florida teen turned away from dance because of kilt

[Pour1Malt]

I didn't see the e-mail you sent, but that was about a non-responsive pile of . . . umm, stuff.

aye!

she deserves to get thoosans o' emails fur that reply!

the email ai sent wuz the same as ai posted oan page two o' this threid...

but ai altered it tae make it personally to her instead of to someone else...

[auld argonian]

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

[RK-REX]

What he said ***.

Well said.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Get used to it folks!

The vast majority of people on the planet view kilts as something to be worn by scottish men in scotland... or women of course.

The followers of this board, and those like it, will tend to have a heavily weighted and extremely biased view that somehow - next month perhaps - kilts are going to be the next fashion sensation and accepted globally. Think again.

Kilts are and will remain to be viewed as offbeat, controversial, and by many a form gender bending.

The education system, like many institutions, is set up to condition people to conform. This storey is just a small example of that. The Nathan Warmack storey was the same as are numerous others.

So don't hold your breath...This situation is not going to change anytime soon.


blu