Have you caught this ongoing story from Raymond, Alberta, a town that has a large Scottish-Canadian population, a town near Lethbridge?
Hamish Jacobs wants to go to the grad wearing his uncle's kilt. His school says no. As the nineteen year old was quoted by the Globe and Mail as saying: “I find it funny. The school teaches you to respect your heritage, be different, be yourself. And so I am going to be different, being myself. And they don’t like that.”
Be the same yet be different. Or is that be different yet be the same. I always get those mixed up.
What do you think? Do you think this lad should be able to show his pride in being both a grad and a Scotsman?
Lemme know.
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I think it's shite.
ReplyDeleteThe kid wants to show his love for his grandfather, and pride in his heritage, and the school is saying no. That's garbage.
Guaranteed, considering which province this is happening in, the school does not see a young man who has pride in his lineage; they see a boy who wants to wear a "skirt".
I hope the students rally around him like the pink shirt days against bullying we've seen. Let's see a kilt day against conformity.
Instead of giving this young man the props he deserves for being brave enough to be different, in a province that does not celebrate difference, he is being made out to be an agitator.
My ancestors, were from the outer Hebrides, and the lad hould be proud and wear his kilt!
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