Granite City student can't wear kilt to prom

[Shana A]

Granite City student can't wear kilt to prom

BY MARLON A. WALKER
Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:15 am

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/granite-city-student-can-t-wear-kilt-to-prom/article_8fd1bab1-5fc2-5716-be62-15838936758e.html#.T3R7p6czTpY.facebook

GRANITE CITY • A Granite City High School senior doing research on his family's Scottish heritage purchased a kilt made out of the family's tartan and decided the garment's coming out party would be at the senior prom.

School officials, however, said no.

William Carruba was denied again Tuesday by the Granite City School Board, where he had turned in hopes of having the school's denial reversed. Officials there said kilts are "nontraditional" and that they do not fit into the district's dress code

[veritatemfurto]

Been talking for a week about this already on Facebook...

good luck to any of that board if they ever set foot in Scotland.

[niamh]

Do they not know that Irish and Scottish people have been in America for 400 years! The first St. Patrick's Day parade took place in New York 250 years ago! To put it in perspective, Irish and Scottish people have been celebrating their heritage on American soil before The United States even existed! Now tell me that that's 'not traditional'.

[Jamiep]

I have a male cousin who is proud of our Scottish heritage here in Canada and honors that history by wearing a kilt quite often & at our family social gatherings. Both sexes wear kilts. I remember years ago reading a news item about an American author whose name I have forgotten, he had a summer home on the shore of Cape Cod back in the 40's-50's. On the hot summer days he preferred to wear a kilt or skirt as he felt it was practical comfortable in the genital area rather than wearing tight pants or shorts that were hot. A male wearing a kilt does not reflect gender variance. The school officials should get over it.

Jamie

[niamh]

Yes, it's true, wearing a kilt is not unmanly. I'd like to see the principal of that school telling a group of beefy Scottish rugby fans that wearing kilts somehow affects their manhood.

But I think that that argument is not the right road to go down, especially as trans people. Afterall, if he wanted to wear a skirt to the prom, why would that matter? It shouldn't be anyone else's business what he wears, be it a kilt or a skirt or a pair of trousers.

[King Malachite]

Gee that sucks  Kilts are very manly to me. I want one.