Tattoos on teachers?

[Tara922c]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...WMsKOsQKMoOCPDw&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAQ&dur=202

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...b6JuqQsALz4eSiDw&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ9QEwBQ&dur=69

Still would rather my child have a teacher that looks like the men in the links provided than a teacher who may impose their ignorant views on my child.

 

[KatieCollette]

I don't like them if they can't be covered up. Now I have a tattoo, so I'm not against them. But if you are a working professional you should at least not get a glaringly obvious one. One of the teachers at my kids school has a flower ring around her ankle and I hate it. I think it looks trashy (not the tattoo itself, just the placement and the fact the kids can see it.)

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

That last link of the alien really freaked me out. Looks like something out of a horror movie...or at least on Scare Tactics.

I think one or two tats are fine on people, and it doesn't matter their profession. Something that extreme as in the links would have me question what in the world they were thinking.

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

Tats might look cool when they are fresh, but I have never seen a crisp looking tat on a 60 year old. The little parrot starts to look like a bit of road kill... With that in mind I see a tattoo as a sign that the person doesn't have any foresight, they don't respect their body, they are most likely followers and just not a good role model. And if anyone outside your family is viewed as a role model to young kids it is a teacher they see 6 hours a day... I would have a real problem with some trashy looking teacher for my kids and that is what people look like when they have tattoos.

Might I add that nothing on your skin looks good when you're 60.

I have had multiple teachers with tattoos, and they were usually the ones who were better at teaching, believe it or not. They tended to be the teachers that had a more creative side and thought of new ways to teach old things.

My kindergarten teacher had a tattoo on her foot and wore sandals almost everyday. No one cared. My English teacher my sophomore year of high school had tattoos and piercings, and none of the students thought her any different for it. Let me put it to you this way: Students don't really care what their teachers look like. It's not like you'll have your kids coming home to you saying "Miss So-and-so has a tattoo, and it's taking away from my learning experience!" It really doesn't matter as to how they're teaching.

I have a good friend who is head of events for five radio stations in the area. She has tattoos on both of her ankles and wears shorts most days. No one cares. I'm in college now, and I can honestly say a good 50% of my classmates have tattoos, me being one of them. I don't see why it's such a big deal to some people. Tattoos are nobody's business except the person who gets the ink in their skin.

In short, if it's not offensive in any way, what's the problem? I don't see any.

 

[monsterkitty]

This thread makes me want to run out and get a tattoo just to see how long it takes one my student's parents to say something....

 

[js]

Their body.

As long as they aren't all crazy covered with them and have them on their faces and stuff like some kind of freak show. I wouldn't be happy about a bunch of lip/eybrow/nose piercings either.

Call me old fashioned, but teachers are supposed to represent a stable adult worthy of respect and people who go to those kinds of excesses are generally out of sorts, and it shows. At least to me. ETA, I'm talking school teachers, not guitar teachers or anything. Teachers in the public school system for K-12.

LOL
Personally, I don't have any myself nor do I want one myself. I also know a teacher and quite a few nurses/doctors who do not have any either and it would be questionable if they are stable or not For real!

 

[EMom]

I'm sorry you feel that way and have a narrow view. My son is 35, has his masters in education from CSUSacramento, worked 3 jobs while attending school and graduated with zero debt. Hardly a follower and hardly trashy or low class, trailer trash.
He is a 6th grade teacher and was getting the troubled children. One year a kid wiped after going to the bathroom on a page of a book and spread it all over the classroom. By the end of the year, he was calling my son Mr (his last name). Something tells me, that probably wouldn't have happened with a teacher with a bow tie. Granted my son doesn't have tattoos on his face or neck, they are on his leg. He has two right now (large ones) and getting one of my deceased dad. While in college, he had the piercings in his eyebrow, tongue and all that good stuff which I never liked but I guess, it was just something he had to go through. They are no longer there.

I think my son is an excellent role model, worked his way through college, got married and had a child while still in college and still, no school loans after graduating. His wife is an RN in surgery at a hospital and they now have their second child. He was his son's Little League coach, now coaching fall ball in Citrus Heights, they bought their first house 5 years ago. A few tattoos does not make for a terrible role model. Just remembered, my 28 year old daughter has one now too on her back shoulder. She has her BA in Business from CSUS, worked her way through college and now makes more $$ than me. She is in the USSSA Hall of Fame for shortstop in fastpitch, saving to buy her first house. Neither of them do drugs, have gotten arrested, etc. Just terrible, terrible role models

**after thinking about it, I'm as old as dirt as I graduated high school in 75 but I remember the coolest teachers being those who related to the kids. The BEST teacher was one who drove this little 2 seater british car, wore this wierd british hat, wore shorts with knee socks that had the british flag on it and the kids all loved him. The older man with the suit and tie and wrote on every inch of that blackboard, we couldn't wait for that hour to be up so we could run out of his class.

So a kid who wipes his feces on a book can only relate to a teacher with tattoos? I don't know that you're necessarily making a case for teachers with tattoos....

And isn't assuming a "teacher with a bow tie" would be unable to reach/help a student such as you mentioned just the same as accusing a teacher with tattoos of being a poor role model or trashy? Seems like judging someone by their appearance, but I guess that's only off limits when it comes to people WITH tats, not those WITHOUT them.

 

[handinpocket]

I trust my children's teachers to have good judgement. Running out and getting a full sleeve, signals to me, that the teacher has issues and doesn't use her best judgement.

I don't need that crap around my child. If you have some covered, so be it, what I don't know won't hurt me, but to have a full sleeve and those nasty ear things. Weirdo. Not teaching my kids.

 

[Christopher Robin]

I saw some cool tats on the CMs at the World last time my family went there.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I trust my children's teachers to have good judgement. Running out and getting a full sleeve, signals to me, that the teacher has issues and doesn't use her best judgement.

I don't need that crap around my child. If you have some covered, so be it, what I don't know won't hurt me, but to have a full sleeve and those nasty ear things. Weirdo. Not teaching my kids.

How about if someone overseas...protecting our country with a full sleeve?

Bad judgement? Gee....maybe they shouldn't be in charge of others or there at all.

 

[luvsJack]

I trust my children's teachers to have good judgement. Running out and getting a full sleeve, signals to me, that the teacher has issues and doesn't use her best judgement.

I don't need that crap around my child. If you have some covered, so be it, what I don't know won't hurt me, but to have a full sleeve and those nasty ear things. Weirdo. Not teaching my kids.

If your kids go to public school, what exactly are you going to do about it?

Why would you choose to judge someone on how they look? Wouldn't you prefer to have the best teacher for your child? If the person with a full sleeve is the best teacher for the job, why would you not want them?

 

[topolino]

I saw some cool tats on the CMs at the World last time my family went there.

Did they undress for you? Because the Disney Look excludes visible tattoos.

 

[topolino]

I trust my children's teachers to have good judgement. Running out and getting a full sleeve, signals to me, that the teacher has issues and doesn't use her best judgement.

I don't need that crap around my child. If you have some covered, so be it, what I don't know won't hurt me, but to have a full sleeve and those nasty ear things. Weirdo. Not teaching my kids.

So how long do you plan on sheltering your kids from the horrors of a full sleeve tattoo? I think "judgement" is the right word to use, but it ain't the teacher that's displaying it.

 

[handinpocket]

If your kids go to public school, what exactly are you going to do about it?

Why would you choose to judge someone on how they look? Wouldn't you prefer to have the best teacher for your child? If the person with a full sleeve is the best teacher for the job, why would you not want them?

We are fortunate to have the funds to send our children to private school. No offending visible tattoos.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Did they undress for you? Because the Disney Look excludes visible tattoos.

This made me chuckle...

 

[handinpocket]

So how long do you plan on sheltering your kids from the horrors of a full sleeve tattoo? I think "judgement" is the right word to use, but it ain't the teacher that's displaying it.

Don't worry, my kids share my views! It is my job as a parent to teach and guide, I do that.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Did they undress for you? Because the Disney Look excludes visible tattoos.

 

[topolino]

 

[ms.yt]

Don't worry, my kids share my views! It is my job as a parent to teach and guide, I do that.

I would love to know how you know for sure that your kids "share your views" about everything.

What is with this topic that so many judgmental, condescending jerks are posting with their superior, elitist attitudes? I think we have a enough of them on here now to make up a basketball team.

 

[topolino]

When I was in Jr. High School way back in the late '80s, there was a teacher that looked like the late '60s version of John Lennon. Long, light brown hair parted in the middle and round eyeglasses. Now this was back when tattoos were very rare, but you didn't see a lot of long hair on male teachers.

Ask my ex schoolmates today who their favorite teacher was in Jr. High, and a lot of them will say him. He was a great teacher, but I think his look made him cool to the kids, and they paid more attention to him and listened to what he had to say.

I think you might find something similar happening today, in some cases, with teachers with tattoos.