Private school teacher with tattoos?

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What is your opinion? If your child attends a private school and you noticed their teacher had tattoos up arms etc….

Would It bother you? Non offensive tattoos.

Why though, what is it that makes folk permanently mark their bodies. Imagine if we were all stuck with the same hair do we had when we were 20 for the rest of our lives! Tastes and image change. I saw an elderly person with an elaborate tattoo on their arm and it was all faded and unsightly. I felt a bit sorry for them.

🤣.a few decades ago maybe this would’ve happened.

My DS has a PhD from Imperial University, earns north of £250k per year

There are plenty of tattooed footballers who earn considerably more than that.

Don’t see what his salary has to do with it? I earn the same and have no tattoos?

Tutoring is a bit different to being a full time eg secondary school teacher

Im not keen on tattoos in general. But I don't think it would bother me if teacher had them.

Is the teacher encouraging under age tattooing to his /her pupils?! Doubtful.

To be honest if they’re professional they should be covered but I understand if they can’t be. One accountants where I worked an IT guy had his nose pierced and he was told to remove it or cover it up. He did what he was told to do.

When I was setting up for school concerts and plays, I wore black cargoes, black t-shirt, tool belt with tools and black steelies. Oh, and proper protective gloves, too - nobody likes a crush injury.

Was there a disconnect between how I looked and how the children looked? Or between me and the RE teacher playing the electric piano I'd just hooked up to the PA system's clothing? Or was it blatantly obvious that I was neither of those and therefore would not be required to dress identically?

I would be incredibly embarrassed on behalf of anyone who batted an eye. Additionally, it's customary for teachers to dress smartly and modestly so I shouldn't think the tattoos would be on display too much anyway

Might I suggest that aesthetic appearance is possibly the very least important and most trivial of ways that a teacher can be a role model? But, if anything, having a really great teacher with tattoos might teach a child from a conservative or judgmental family the valuable lesson that one shouldn't be so quick to judge a book by its cover.

Tattoos oh my goodness , whatever next 🙄

No, there’s not a disconnect because what you were wearing was functional and thus appropriate to your role.

Wouldn't bother me. I wouldn't send my children to private school anyway, so I'm probably not the right person to ask. Twenty years ago, tattoos would be a problem for a lot of jobs (presumably including teaching) but now they're so mainstream, it's probably more unusual/rebellious not to have one than to have one. People might look strangely at a 60 year old with lots of tattoos (I wouldn't, but then I don't judge by looks as much as some people), not so much at a 25 year old.

This.

A tattoo concealed by a long sleeved shirt or ordinary usual clothing, I wouldn’t care. It’s a face or neck tattoo or a full sleeve so vivid it shows through material or else peeks from the cuff. It’s just a bit showy. You’re there to teach not be “me me me”

Tbh im more likely to judge a person who thinks any less of someone because they have tattoos!

I think it does seem more professional when they are covered in certain professions. But I have to say I think I have this outlook drummed into me from my mother 😂 Tattoo's don't bother me - I've had boyfriends with tattoos and love them but thinking about a school environment, I think it goes along with being smartly dressed.

Rude?! 🤣🤣🤣

But it would be ok on a state school teacher?

Well, yes. With the implication being that OP (and people who disagree with you) are 'idiots'.

Well, you’re not paying so can’t call the shots as much

It wouldn’t bother me. In fact I’d quite like it. This reminds me of a friend who didn’t get a job back in the late 90s because she had a tattoo on her arm. The manager said her tattoo (of a rose) could be too distracting for her to be able to carry out her job. As she’s just going to sit and stare at her own arm all day instead of working.

Not unless it was a swastika

Nah.

Though thinking about it, i might be a bit judgy about facial tattoos. Not that I'd say anything, and I would evaluate their skills/teaching ability but it would make me think 'you are or at some point have been, an absolute fuckwit'.

And I say that as someone with tattoos down to her wrists that are visible all the time.

Oh for god sake. Why do teachers have to live to a different set of standards to everyone else?

When I was a child I thought teachers were like robots and lived in the school and only came to life when we arrived at school. Then I grew up and realised they are human beings and have a life and interests outside of school.

I have a small one for a baby who died. It's pretty discreet and not that easily noticed, though not hidden. It makes me feel like I carry her with me in some tangible way. Never thought I'd have a tattoo before that and won't get anymore. Even the non-tattoo likers seem to like it and understand the place of that one.