My principal has her tongue pierced. |
Woman with tats = damaged goods.
Just who you want teaching your kids... |
I know a nun with two tattoos. She’s a lovely person. |
Our pediatrician briefly had a receptionist with multiple piercings (nose, eyebrow, lip), many tattoos, and strangely colored hair (this was 10 years ago, long before the current trend, which I think is odd). I thought it an bizarre choice, and was happy when she was no longer there. It is about being in a position of a role model, and sorry not sorry, but tattoos and piercing are not what I want as a role model for my children.
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I would never hire someone with visible tats. Shows poor judgement. But, these days you take what you can get. |
You’re seriously limiting your applicant pool. Prig, pride, square. Sorry your worldview is so narrow and your sex life is so proscribed. |
I don't think folks understand just how bad the teacher shortage is right now. My school requires that every teacher has an ESL certificate due to the high numbers of students speaking many different languages. We used to get hundreds of qualified applicants for every open position. Now we get maybe a dozen applicants, mostly from unqualified applicants. We recently had to hire a new teacher. We interviewed a few people. Out of those, really only 2 were qualified in any sense of the word. Only one was decent. The one that was decent ended up not being able to accept the job. That left us hiring someone that we didn't really want. So a tatoo or piercing? No biggie. We just need folks who can teach. I'm so seriously glad that my own kids are nearly done with K-12. And I'm extremely, extremely worried about the kids I work with each year. We expect that about half of our teachers will retire in the next 3 years. I have no idea how any of our kids are going to learn with the applicant pool we have.
OP, you are worrying about the wrong things. |
Wow, who dredged up this old one? |
Um....so your saying my husband, who is an executive at Fortune 500 global company, that you have definitely heard of, is unprofessional, anti-social, a bad influence? I'll let him know. |
Get a life, OP. I mean that seriously. |
As zoologists, biologists, and sociologists will tell you, in the animal kingdom, including humans, how others look is a very important part of socialization and communicaiton. It means something. OP's kids teacher is making a statement and OP is reacting to it. This shouldn't be a surprise. |
OP wrote this in 2013 so there’s really no point getting mad at OP anymore |
Tatoos are pretty much not rare in anyone under 35 in any occupation. I think anyone under 35 considers them pretty normative. I see tatoos on women all over town on their necks, their arms their hands etc. I went to church at a very conservative church and the pastor of the congragation had what I would call a rock star level of tatoos. He had tatoos all over his neck and arms and he had so many it kind of distracted from the message. I see tatoos on lady professionals and lady MD's. It is pretty normative in my town in the south. |
agreed |
The majority of Americans between 30 and 39 have tattoos (https://www.statista.com/statistics/259601/share-of-americans-with-at-least-one-tattoo-by-age/). And those who believe that “It should be forbidden for representatives of certain professions to have (visible) tattoos” are in the extreme minority —15 percent of those 65 and older, 7 percent of those 18 to 29 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/722508/tattoos-statements-agreement-of-americans-by-age/). Also, “More than 70 percent of parents said they were comfortable with tattoos on camp counselors and teachers” (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tattoos-at-work-0812-story.html%3foutputType=amp).
So, hand wring if you want about tatoos, but that puts you squarely in an uptight minority. Also, if we’ve had tattooed world leaders (Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Justin Trudeau) and plenty of tattooed business executives, your kid is going to be exposed to body modifications one way or another (and still turn out fine). |