Teacher says his tattoos and surgically blackened eyes cost him his kindergarten job

Reuters ^ | Sept. 28, 2020 | Lucien Libert

[rickmichaels]

PALAISEAU, France — A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after a parent complained he scared their child.

But the teacher, Sylvain Helaine, 35, still teaches children from the age of six up, and said that, after an initial shock when they see him for the first time, his pupils see past his appearance.

“All of my students and their parents were always cool with me because basically they knew me,” said Helaine, who estimated he has spent around 460 hours under the tattooists’ needle.

“It’s only when people see me from far away that they can assume the worst.”

He said last year he was teaching kindergarten at the Docteur Morere Elementary School in Palaiseau, a suburb of Paris, when the parents of a three-year-old child complained to educational authorities. They said their son, who was not taught by Helaine, had nightmares after seeing him.

[rickmichaels]

Deranged freak. Shouldn't be within a literal mile of any child:

[left that other site]

Heck...he scares ME!

And I’m no child.

[heshtesh]

And you say you lost your job.........go figure........

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Amazing that people this stupid are able to walk amongst everyone else in the world

[rbg81]

Imagine that? This creepozoid should not be anywhere near kids.

[glennaro]

This should be a Babylon Bee spoof but, alas .......

[angcat]

Wow what a man! SICKO!

[BunnySlippers]

Who the heck hired that guy to begin with???

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Maudeen]

I would imagine there are more teachers that are currently in the schools just as scary. . . not just physically. I taught with a few.

[rbg81]

Amazing that people this stupid are able to walk amongst everyone else in the world

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I’ve run into a few people who have overdone it with the tattoos. Most of them are very young when they do it. By the time they wise up enough to realize what they have done, it’s too late. They basically rob themselves of a normal life. It’s sad.

Tattoo removal is expensive, time consuming, potentially dangerous and never 100% effective. It would probably take years and $100-200K to be “normal” again.

[CSW]

It missed a spot.

[ConservativeInPA]

Your body is God’s Temple. Pretty straight-forward if you ask me. There is no doubt who resides in this guys body.

[ArtDodger]

Looks fake. One photo, his upper lip is tattooed and in another part of it is not.

[cranked]

Next job: the Carnival.....

[polymuser]

Give him some credit for showing his perverseness. Many teachers hide theirs well.

[bk1000]

If my kid’s kindergarten hired that freak I’d burn it down with the administrators inside.

[UnwashedPeasant]

An exhibitionist who targets kindergarteners.

[UnwashedPeasant]

An exhibitionist who targets kindergarteners.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Tattoos are forbidden by the Bible.