Monday, May 24, 2010

Raymond High School principal Mark Beazer and Westwind School Division superintendent Doug Bennett: Idiots of the Day

And now the world knows too.

Hamish Jacobs has only worn a kilt once. He tried on the blue-and-green tartan of his mother’s Forbes clan two months ago, to make sure he could wear it to his high-school graduation in late June...

...But three weeks ago, he went to his high-school principal to ask if he could wear a kilt beneath his graduation gown, a tribute to a Scottish-Canadian upbringing that had included sampling haggis and turnips on Robbie Burns Day...

...But his principal “just said no right away,” Mr. Jacobs said.

Kilts, Mr. Jacobs was told, do not fit the dress code for graduation – although he would be allowed to wear it during a post-convocation dinner. An appeal to the superintendent of the Westwind School Division received the same answer. Mr. Jacobs is now considering an appeal to the school board in early June.


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