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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So this is exactly what I'm talking about. Tatoos and piercings are becoming accepted as mainstream. I don't know about you, but I worked pretty hard as a kid to do things to separate myself from the uncool adults with those being my parents and teachers in particular. Thankfully none of them had tatoos or piercings. If they had, I would have done that and more. Maybe I was a bad egg or maybe kids have changed and those "teachable" moments you all keep talking about has the desired impact and doesn't make kids go out and do exactly what their parents warned them not to do (which is what I did). Have you seen how kids are defacing themselves these days? If the bar keeps getting moved all the time, what are the kids' options for taking it to the next level? Knowing this tendency in kids to take things to the extreme, shouldn't we expect our teachers to be models of conservatism in dress and appearance at least on the job? [/quote]

I have no idea what you are talking about with kids defacing themselves or whatever, but really I honestly think you have a serious case of "kids these days" syndrome; kind of like what people said women women started wearing bloomers "OMG women wearing PANTS???? What is society coming to!!!"  Are you talking about those creepy people who slit their tongues and decide to look like lizards?  Because that's pretty out there compared to tattoos or a piercing on the nose, and I'm confident it won't be the next huge social trend.  If anything, your kid's rebellion might be to be hyper straight edge.  My parents are liberal, tolerant democrats, and as part of my brother's teen rebellion he tried out being a republican.[/quote]

I hope you're right.

I'm not providing any definitions about socially acceptable appearance. I just don't think that it makes sense for my kid's teacher to wear her nose piercing and show her tatoos at her teaching job. That's a choice she makes. I don't think the examples of the head scarf for religious reasons or the morbidly obese person are apples to oranges comparison here. And I hope people on this board don't really equate social acceptance of tatoos and body piercings with the social acceptability of women wearing pants.

[b]I volunteered teach at an inner city school one time to a group of 2d graders and one of them had her tongue pierced. I would pass out cold in horror if my DC at any age got DC's tongue pierced. Does that really make me some sort of a racist?[/b]

I know people with these things can be and are successful. The impression I have is that kids have it much harder these days and that people do form impressions about people based on their appearance. We just interviewed people to fill a position here and none of them showed up with any piercings or visible tatoos. [/quote]

No, but it makes you unrealistic.  And kind of uptight.  And, frankly, in for a bumpy ride.[/quote]

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