Should High School Teachers Have Tramp Stamps? [exposed lower back tattoos]

forum.dvdtalk.com ^ | 09-13-07 | lotsofdvds

[grundle]

I took my future stepdaughter to her high school orientation a few weeks back. When we got to our designated area and as we were waiting in line I noticed that the student volunteer who was handing out our group's schedules had her ass hanging out of her pants, clearly displaying her lower back tattoo. In any other situation I'd be thinking something else, but in this particular one I was none too keen on having my future kid see this.

Once all the schedules were passed out the student got up to talk to the group, and as it turned out, she's not a student at all but a 22-year old math and art teacher at the school. Great. Not only is my kid going to be taught by someone just a couple of years older than her, but also someone who had the Transitive Property translated into vines and barbed wire and then branded directly over her pooper.

I mean, look... there's no way that stupid thing isn't going to be visible at some point in the school day, and if she was a student she'd be penalized for it. And I think in terms of dress and behavior on school grounds, teachers and students should be held to the same set of rules. The last thing I need as a parent is to get into an argument with my kid about why she can't get anything on her body ever and have the words "Well Ms. Ass Target, my math teacher, has one. And she's a teacher!"

Fast forward to this week: My bride had a parent-teacher conference with her the other day (about other issues) and at the end she brought up the teacher's skimpy clothes and exposed ass markings (as it had been noticed by the students who'd taken to singing some song about tattoos to her whenever they saw it).

The response by the school's Dean of Students was:

"Our county's school teachers do not have a dress code."

[oakcon]

Holy ****! Warning next time, please.

[upsdriver]

I had the same rules with the same results. They were mad at the time but thanked me later.

[absolootezer0]

i’m looking at getting my 13th tat soon, i’ve been thru a number of piercings, re-piercings and stretchings.. but that scares even me.

but they do look freaking cool.

[Doomonyou]

Warning! The pictures you just looked at are disturbing!

(Better late than never?)

[lesser_satan]

Whoa, that's just f$%ked up. The pic of the skin-chunks on the tray are particularly disturbing.

[Doomonyou]

but that scares even me.

That's gotta hurt like a big dog.

[trimom]

I guess that was my point: had she had some sense of limits imposed, she might not have that tramp stamp now. Of course, this could increase her chances of success with the 10th grade boys. No sense of limits might extend to all sorts of aspects of her life.

[MotleyGirl70]

That is disgusting and I didn't need to see that! You could have just hyperlinked that picture with a warning. Use your head next time!

[absolootezer0]

yeah, but who knows how she got thru it. natural high pain tolerence, drugs, alcohol, masochism?

[NonValueAdded]

I always wondered what to call those things; now I know. How cool is that.

[Doomonyou]

Hey, it's a tattoo thread, the warning is implied.

OK, I'll use my head next time.

[absolootezer0]

Hey, it's a tattoo thread, the warning is implied.

yeah, whodathunkit, on a "body mutilation" thread, there's pics of *gasp* "body mutilation." :)

[najida]

Well,
I have one with the intentions of making it bigger (I have to have SOMETHING to talk about in the nursing home).

And I’m not a tramp either
(drat it all :( )

[Mr. Blonde]

Might as well get used to this. Maybe not having them exposed, but definitely teachers with tramp stamps. That has to be the most popular place for women to get tattoos.

I really don’t see the problem with the teacher being 22 though. I would rather have a young teacher than an old one. Most old teachers I had were burnt out, at least a young one would still be into what they are doing.

[absolootezer0]

ah, but then you run into the problem. the old teachers (at least the old ones i had) were actually conservatives, whereas all the young ones the smellylibhippy activists.

[Doomonyou]

yeah, whodathunkit, on a "body mutilation" thread, there's pics of *gasp* "body mutilation." :)

Wierd, ain't it?

Comment #18 Removed by Moderator

Well, It's still on the Unnngh... Thread.

[Talking_Mouse]

Is the teacher teaching math well? Do her students understand the concepts of algebra or trig or geometry? Teaching math is the teacher's job.

If her tattoo is detraction from her ability to teach math then there is cause to complain. Are the students -- not the parents but the students -- paying attention to her tattoo instead of the mathematical concepts they are supposed to be learning? If the writer of the article's daughter is learning math from this woman, then he has no cause to complain that she is not doing her job.

Is there a school dress code that is violated by showing a lower back tattoo? If so does she show it normally in class? Was she just showing it to the kids during parent/teacher/firstday schedule to show that she is cool and/or has more in common with the student than they may think?

Bottom line is that this woman is hired to teach math, and if the students are learning math she is doing her job - no matter what she has on her body. If, on the other hand, the students are NOT learning math, no matter how much she has in common with her students in the way of body art, she needs to be either fired or demoted and retrained.

[absolootezer0]

aw man.. i was gonna save those. can you send me a link to ‘em?

[Doomonyou]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1235991/posts?q=1&;page=2601

Post #2674

The Unnngh..Thread!

[DancesWithCats]

Wrong. Her Tramp Stamp is screaming volumes of messages to kids just looking for ‘which way did they go?!’ and does NOT belong being seen in a school environment. Take it to the school board, bring it up to the superintendent of the school district and do it all in writing ... and if you get no satisfaction, take it to the press.