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Personally, I have become more settled about tattoos, but the example they gave of Nora Flanagan...well, it seems a little obsessive for a professional person.
I teach with a lady who has almost that many tattoos... and I expect she will get to that level at some point. She is a really good teacher, much better than me I think.
The fact that the lady in the article has book themed tattoos is neat and appropriate for a teacher, obviously if her tattoos were offensive or inappropriate that would be another matter.
And I totally get why certain districts in more traditional areas might not hire teachers based on look, and I don't really have a problem with that either.
What I grew up, and as a teen, tattoos were just not the thing in the social circles around me. I'm just not into tattoos, personally. And, I don't understand the people that just get so many of them all over their body.
Personally, I have become more settled about tattoos, but the example they gave of Nora Flanagan...well, it seems a little obsessive for a professional person.
I don't see having full sleeves as being any more 'obsessive' than not having any tattoos at all (I have no tattoos, but it would be odd to say that I'm 'obsessed' with not getting tattoos).
It seems to me that so long as the tattoos contain no overt offensive messages - ie, wherein the issue is not the tattoo but the message - then there should be no problem. Yet is there any doubt that some teachers (and people in other positions) have not been hired because of tattoos, and the potential employers then went on to hire less-qualified, less-talented individuals because they did not have visible tattoos? Talk about screw-up priorities.
I've never seen a case of excessive tattoos not being an indicator of personality/psychology characteristics that I view as negative and don't care to be around.
It's no surprise to hear, however, that being covered with tattoos has wide acceptance today among millennials. A generation that embraces "gay marriage" will embrace anything and everything.
I've never seen a case of excessive tattoos not being an indicator of personality/psychology characteristics that I view as negative and don't care to be around.
It's no surprise to hear, however, that being covered with tattoos has wide acceptance today among millennials. A generation that embraces "gay marriage" will embrace anything and everything.
Tattoos will always be counter-culture.
Seriously? When I did my teaching internship 15 years ago there was a teacher who had a lot of visible tattoos. She was in her early 30s at the time so she’d probably be about 46-47 now. The school was in a suburban area that definitely had a combination of traditional and more progressive folks, but the students really seemed to respond well to her. I work in government now and there have been people with visible tattoos ranging in age from 20s (so late millennials) to what would be in their 60s now... I definitely don’t see it just as a millennial thing.
Do female teachers have to stop working when they are “in a family way” and “start to show”?
No, but nice job being a ****.
You'll notice that I didn't say they CAN'T have tattoos, only that most don't. My town is a suburb of Nashville, which is a very creative city with TONS of tattooed folks. I know there are teachers here who have tattoos, but in my many visits to schools all over this area I've never seen a teacher with as many as the one in the article. But they are becoming more common.
And the firefighters and police here have tattoos. They just have to wear a sleeve over them while on duty.
Oh, and yes they wear shoes, in case you want to toss out any more stereotypes.
It's amazing what one word - conservative - did to jump start your snark this morning.
I personally think that all tattoos are ugly. It's just part of fashion right now. It might have started out as counter-cultural, along with piercings, but like all fashion that catches on, mainstream people will adopt it too. When old people start copying the fashion of the young, the young will come up with something completely the opposite. I've seen plenty of seniors with tattoos and they were not biker types. One of them had a tattoo that said #1 Nana. When older people get new tattoos, they start out looking o.k. but when 18 year olds get tattoos and they leave them on until they become seniors on aging skin, they look pretty ratty. I've got no problem with teachers having tattoos, if that's their choice of fashion. It's no more distracting than my former high school teacher who had a collection of bright lime green jackets that he wore everyday to school. It's just the current style and we all know that styles come and go, just like big afros have made a comeback (which was also controversial for teachers in the 70s) and Mr. T hairstyles.
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