Boy gets sent HOME from school for wearing a Kilt?!

If the boy is of scottish parentage or orginin and if the kilt was related to his project then yes, he should be allowed to wear it. The kilt only swings from the thighs down so it doesnt show what is underneath in a high wind! It was normal not to wear anything underneath it but nowadays men often do wear a brief. The sporran (pouch) is worn in th fron of the kilt below the belly and is heavy enough to weigh the kilt down. Kilts are also worn in other celtic people - Irish and Cornishmen. It is their national dress and different colours of the tartan belong to different clans or families. It is a great heritage and I am glad that the principal apologised.

Hi Lakota, A kilt may look to the uninformed like a skirt but it is a very carefully made garment which requires a high level of skill and uses about 5 yards of material. The folds are all done in such a way to retain the pattern of the tartan. I can only say if it had been my son I would have been very proud of him and the teacher would have had a very unpleasant visit. What an idiot to arrange a class project and then reject an example of one of the finest examples of national dress. I have proudly worn my kilt all over the world and never had a negative comment made to me. Many customers specially requested that I visit them wearing my kilt. Hears tae us! Wha's like us!

This sounds like one of those typical stories where one hand does not know what the other is doing and the principal was too busy with more important matters to either ask for or listen to the boy's explanation. There are principals who got where they were because they were because they are management material with excellent people skills and there are principals who made it because they were, to be honest, better administrators than teachers ... and then there are those who took up teaching because they loved the 'power' aspect and all they wanted to do was to have their own school which they could run as a 'tight ship'. I will refrain from saying where I think this particular principal fits in but I am glad to hear that he had the grace to apologise. To be honest, it is one of those stories that the media pick up on with glee - a little molehill in school life that looks good (and sells copies) in the local rag. My son (who is, I calculate, 1/8th Scottish) was required to wear a kilt at his sister's wedding. I have never seen him look so handsome and manly and, to his great and lasting embarrassment, not only I but many other real Scotsmen (I do not, to my shame, have a drop of Celtic blood in me) at the wedding told him so - and that he had the legs for it. He has the right to wear the kilt (Gibson tartan) so maybe one day he will do so with pride! Bully for the young lad who was prepared to go to school in a kilt in order to educate people - BOOO to the educator who put convention above education and did not accept that he, himself, could be educated!

Naturally being Scottish I think this was very unfair. Especially as the boy was prepared to give an explanation on what his kilt meant. BTW a Scotsman wears trews under his kilt but way back in the old days they did not wear anything so that they could (if necessary) expose their manhood and scare off their enemies??!! (or maybe tempt the lassies )

If he wasn't lifting his kilt up, then he shouldn't have been sent home :) I think the reason is because the principal probably didn't even know what a kilt is or he thought the kid was wearing it as a joke.

Even if the principle said he was sorry, what he did still leaves an impression on the boy. It was a project not a stunt. I hope the boy remembers the lesson his principle taught him.

Well I am pretty surpirsed as the principal's attitude...imporper dressing as to what? Is it improper to dress in the traditional attire for school project adn then tell others' about it? I dont think so, the the principal's apology is not requried, the incident itself should not have happened. Knowing children adn their impressionable minds, this incident would more likely scar his mind for a long time.

Sure he was. That was the proper attire for his class project. I'm glad the principal apologized.

I can't see why anyone, anywhere would have a problem with this. It may not be the norm but if a child chooses to wear a kilt I don't see why he shouldn't, especially under the circumstances of doing a school project. He could have taken the kilt, sure, but to wear it was a much more satisfactory way of demonstrating his project in my opinion. His mode of dress was different but certainly not inappropriate or definitely not improper.

I would say he was proper. I mean Scottish people were kilts and I think if the teacher checked into things, he or she would realize it. Sometimes the schools are going a bit too far. And if it was a school project, then the teacher should not have sent him home. The trouble is that the apology came after the fact, like it does in many cases, after the student did not receive the diploma, after the broadcast had been made, etc. You just cannot go back and replay time again. The class project was probably over. Maybe they should, if they taped the school project, delete the video or the dvd, and make them do it all over again. After a few times of dong that, then the teacher will think more careful before sending someone home.

freaking ridiculous what is the principal the fashion police now. where does it say that a male can not wear a kilt or dress or skirt to school. I mean seriously are they going to start requiring that all females only wear dresses and skirts? I hope that the teacher understood and that he didn't fail his project due to the lack of the principals understanding and judgement. I wish that the principal would get a suspension with no pay for being that judgemental.. sigh and shakes head.

Ya, just not paying attention and not trusting kids.

That was weird. I wonder what the rules on clothing there are. Maybe that was it. I would think that the boy could of checked ahead or wrote a letter to the principal for an okay. That is just silly and I am glad the principal had it going on enough to give him an apology. I am empressed by that. I think it was too far for the principal to send him home. But they do have to go by the rules too so, again, I wonder if that how the principal was thinking.

There is one thing that will easily determine the answer to this question. What was the length of the kilt? I know that many schools have a 'finger tips' or 'knee' rule with skirts. (The bottom of the skirt has to reach your finger tips with you hands at your sides. Or the bottom of your skirt has to reach your knees.) As long as he was still within those guidelines, then there is no reason he should have been sent home! Im glad that principal gave an apology, but it probably shouldnt have happened in the first place. As a parent, I would have been livid! It is amazing what double standards do still exist!

Yes he was proper and I think that was disgusting what happened there There was no need for that as you say he did it for a Lesson, not to be awkward if he would have been in ripped Jeans and T shirt just to retaliate then ok but not this

I think that principal was wrong, this is absolutely crazy,

Sounds like cultural oppression if the boy was Scots all the best urban

there is nothing wrong with that plus it is part of their culture..and it is a way for him to educate his classmates on their culture! and at least the principal apologized and admitted mistake

i feel that the scchool are out of order and they should have at least asked him to change. Surely his parents thought there was nothing wrong with it or they wouldnt have sent him to school wearing it. I think the headmaster is weir i mean how has he offended him. Just sounds like a school going to far.

Here is a kid trying to do his best on a school project. The decision to send him home for wearing a kilt was not just wrong it was stupid. Dress code, propriety... I don't think this was even close to the line. The apology was the least the school could do. I hope he aced his project.