Figure 1.---Parkside Primary or Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pairc, as it will be called in Gaelic, .in Edinburgh became the city's first Gaelic-dedicated school in 2013. We believe that means that Gaelic or Celtic language is part of the school's curiculm. And the kilt was an optional part of the uniform for both boys and girls. School administrators seem surprised that while the kilt looking very much like a plaid skirt in Holyrood tartan, proved a very popular choice for the girls, none of the boys wanted anything to do with it. Headteacher Anne MacPhail told a reporter "If the boys wanted to, they could wear kilts but as far as I know, it's only the girls that have gone for it."

A British reader tells us, "The debate about the kilt as school uniform still continues in Scotland. JBC readers might be interested in this News Item from a recent Edinburgh Newspaper." Parkside Primary or Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pairc, as it will be called in Gaelic, .in Edinburgh became the city's first Gaelic-dedicated school in 2013. We believe that means that Gaelic or Celtic language is part of the school's curiculm. And the kilt was an optional part of the uniform for both boys and girls. School administrators seem surprised that while the kilt looking very much like a plaid skirt in Holyrood tartan, proved a very popular choice for the girls, none of the boys wanted anything to do with it. Headteacher Anne MacPhail told a reporter "If the boys wanted to, they could wear kilts but as far as I know, it's only the girls that have gone for it." The boy's have emphatically rejected the national dress and instead are wearing their dark trousers with the school’s navy blue and logo-embroidered sweater. A newspaper article stressed the high cost of the kilt, but any educator with a lick of sense could have predicted that if the girls were allowed to wear the kilt, then the boys understandably would want nothing to do with it. If the girls were given plaid dresses, for example, ot is quite conceiveable that some of the boys would have worn the kilts. And if tradition was important that would have made sense as the kilt was a male garment. But in our modern era of political correctness, the school decided to allow both bots and girls the kilt option. Teachers said the garment would quickly become a hallmark of the school and a symbol of its Edinburgh links. Perhaps so for the girls, but it is likely for the boys.

Source

Holden, John-Paul. "Boys reject kilts at Edinburgh Gaelic school," Edinburgh Evening News (August 15, 2013).

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