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[quote=Anonymous][quote]While I want to be open minded about this sort of thing, I have decided for a variety of reasons that I am uncomfortable with her flaunting these things around DC. I'm also having a hard time understanding why she thinks that it is acceptable for her to be so openly showing off her tatoos to the parents. I guess at a basic, fundamental level, I think it is pretty unprofessional. No one I work with would come to the job showing off their large tatoos in that way. Why is it supposed to be acceptable for school where I send my young child? I also worry that my kids will interpret this to mean that these things are mainstream and acceptable for them to do to themselves. Even worse, they think that this is too mainstream so they go out and do something more outrageous - like the tribal stuff I see kids doing to their ear lobes. Horror! [/quote]

I'm in my 20s, and I think people born after 1980 have laxer ideas about tattoos and piercings than older people.  For people who work in laxer atmospheres regarding appearance than the cooperate world (i.e. tech, most science jobs especially in academia, journalism) there is less of an expectation to dress professional manner and more of an emphasis on doing your job well.  Education seems to be this way too; I have spent significant amounts of time working with teachers and students at the undergraduate and K-12 level.  Teachers and professors can come teach wearing pretty casual clothes that would not be appropriate at an office--i.e. jeans, t-shirts, sandals, sneakers.  I personally would not have an issue with a teacher who had tattoos and piercings as long as they were a good teacher and respectful to my child.  I think it is a generational and cultural shift towards being more casual.[/quote]

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