Kilts in the News

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Kilt-Wearing Teen Seeks Dress Code Change
By BETSY TAYLOR, AP

JACKSON, Mo. (Dec. 22) - Nathan Warmack wanted to honor his heritage by wearing a Scottish kilt to his high school dance. Then a principal told him to change into a pair of pants.

What began with a few yards of tartan has sparked an international debate about freedom, symbols and cultural dress. More than 1,600 people have signed an Internet petition seeking an apology for the high school senior.

Scots in the United States are assembling a traditional ensemble they hope the student will wear to the prom, and his family is trying to change the school's dress code policy.

"It's a kilt. It's going to turn heads, but I never believed it would have become what it is," Warmack said.
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A school official reported commented, but denies having said, "Well, this is my dance, and I'm not going to have students coming into it looking like clowns."

Several Scottish heritage organizations are angry, saying the kilt is a symbol of Scottish pride and considered formal dress.

"To say the traditional Scottish dress makes you look like a clown is a direct insult to people of Scottish heritage and those who live in Scotland," said Tom Wilson, a Texas commissioner for the Clan Gunn Society of North America, a Scottish heritage organization.

Another Clan Gunn member, Beth Gardner, started an online petition seeking an apology for Warmack. It questions in part the notion that the kilt was a distraction.

"From what? From the intense concentration it takes to dance?"
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My younger son was wanting to wear my kilt to his senior formal.
 
ok... that's just silly of the principal.
I've seen too many weddings with groom and groomsmen wearing kilts to think that it's inappropriate.
 
I could maybe understand if somehow the principal knew that he was going commando or something and had Braveheart ambitions for the evening, but not otherwise...that's silly.
 
I saw this also on FoxNews... I understand that they don't like students trying to make a scene, but if this student was being serious and honest about it - then it's within his "rights". I say "rights" because as a student and minor you don't have all the rights of an adult - if "no kilts" is in the dress code then I would have to take the side of the administration.

As far as the admin goes, the dress code is there for a reason, so people don't make a scene, but if it's not in the rules or school policy as determined by a school board, then it's not a rule in my book.

»Jason
 
I guess all the kids at that school always dress conservatively and all the parents stop and think, "My word, they all are dressed so nicely! I would feel very comfortable if any one of those kids wear my students friend! Not a single one looks like a hooker or a thug!"
 
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