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In my opinion tattoos do not need to be covered in a teaching environment unless they have obscene words or imagery. Otherwise, they are just part of self-expression and ultimately inconsequential.
Hate speech? White supremacist stuff? Gang insignias? Obscene language or imagery?
None of that's child-friendly. If it's something I'd disapprove of being on a teacher's t-shirt, it's something I'd disapprove of being inked on a teacher's skin. Other than that, I couldn't care less.
And I'm both a teacher, and a parent. Who has tattoos, albeit not readily visible in the classroom.
Tattoos are always unprofessional. How many physicians, accountants, and lawyers have them? Would either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump have received their parties' nomination if they sported tattoos? How many successful people have tattoos? Why would anyone feel the need to have a tattoo?
i don't know about physicians, accountants, lawyers etc., but your question as to why anyone feels the need to have tattoos is one that I have often pondered.
It's easy for me to ask this, as I have always considered, (old soldiers excepted), that anyone who is tattooed is a tad short in the brain department, someone who is easily led and influenced, "X has a tattoo, I'll get one."
If I were to go into a shoe store, and a visibly tattooed assistant asked if I needed help, I'd say "no, I'm fine thanks", then wait for an unadorned assistant, reasoning that the unadorned one would be more on my wavelength, and we could discuss sizes, colours, alternatives etc. with an equal attitude.
It's the same at a social gathering, if I'm introduced to someone sporting a tattoo(s), I'll shake their hand, smile and say "how are you?"
I'd then avoid them like the plague, reasoning that we'd have little or nothing in common to talk about.
I'm no more nor less intelligent than anyone, and I have the common sense of a trash can lid, but tattoos are anathema to me.
Seeing them on a person, male or female, sets off an alarm that says, "Avoid, cross the street if possible."
i don't know about physicians, accountants, lawyers etc., but your question as to why anyone feels the need to have tattoos is one that I have often pondered.
It's easy for me to ask this, as I have always considered, (old soldiers excepted), that anyone who is tattooed is a tad short in the brain department, someone who is easily led and influenced, "X has a tattoo, I'll get one."
If I were to go into a shoe store, and a visibly tattooed assistant asked if I needed help, I'd say "no, I'm fine thanks", then wait for an unadorned assistant, reasoning that the unadorned one would be more on my wavelength, and we could discuss sizes, colours, alternatives etc. with an equal attitude.
It's the same at a social gathering, if I'm introduced to someone sporting a tattoo(s), I'll shake their hand, smile and say "how are you?"
I'd then avoid them like the plague, reasoning that we'd have little or nothing in common to talk about.
I'm no more nor less intelligent than anyone, and I have the common sense of a trash can lid, but tattoos are anathema to me.
Seeing them on a person, male or female, sets off an alarm that says, "Avoid, cross the street if possible."
You are wrong about intelligence being negatively correlated with having a tattoo. Go to any science department at any top university and many if not most of the grad students have a tattoo, especially the field sciences. One of my good friends is a Ph.D. in geology, and has a trilobite on the back of her neck. One of my former students who is currently working at the hadron has a tattoo of the hydrogen wave functions as a band around his upper arm which is kind of awesome. Many of us have tattoos specifically relating to our graduate work, myself included.
But sure, feel free to judge the intelligence of people based on whatever you like. It says far more about you than it does them.
No I wouldn't object. As an RN, I know tattoos don't age well, but that's just my opinion. Their bodies, their lives. Sure some people go over the top with tattoos, but that's not the norm. Teach my kid well and I don't care about your skin.
I have worked in computer programming for over 40 years and I can say that personal appearance issues do not equate to intelligence or ability one bit. I have worked side by side with some pretty hard core looking people and I was no more offended by their appearance than they were of my more traditional appearance.
However, in some situations, it can be distracting to some. In the case of an elementary school teacher, I would not hire a teacher with too many distracting tattoos but I would not mind my child in that class.
I think that there is a huge difference between having a tattoo or two (perhaps, a small flower, butterfly, word or other symbol with personal meaning) and having T A T T O O S !!!!!
No matter what the profession, IMHO, a simple tattoo or two would not bother most people but full color, large TATTOOS!!!! on the face or full sleeve tattoos on my doctor, lawyer, accountant, teacher, or other professional might be pretty distracting to me.
And, I would definitely be put off by multiple racist or other inappropriate TATTOOS!!!! on the face or arms of a co-worker or someone that I needed to work with closely. Ditto for tear drop tattoos which indicate how many people that person has murdered. To see something like that on anyone makes my blood run cold.
Last edited by germaine2626; 07-31-2016 at 08:14 AM..
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