Need advice! I want to be an elementary teacher, but I also want a couple more tattoos. Is this a bad idea?

I want to be a good role model and not a bad influence. I already have a yin-yang on my ankle. Should I not get anymore because I want to be a teacher? Do any other teachers have tattoos?Need advice! I want to be an elementary teacher, but I also want a couple more tattoos. Is this a bad idea?
I wouldn't have a problem with a teacher having tattoos so long as they're tasteful (no naked images, etc). You shouldn't have any problems anyway if you're willing to put them somewhere that they would be covered up while on campus -- if you wear long sleeves, nobody will see your arms anyway. And IF someone tries to bully you into letting them see if you have any, well... that's considered harassment.Need advice! I want to be an elementary teacher, but I also want a couple more tattoos. Is this a bad idea?
Would you want your kid taught by someone who was covered in tattoos? If you want to teach in elementary school then just don't get anymore that show. Having a lot of tattoos all over are certainly going to put off many of your job interviewers who, because they are interviewing for elementary school jobs, tend to be on the conservative side.
At pharmacy stores they sell ';coach tape'; If you get tatoos that are visable cover them up at school. Yes the teachers at my school have tatoots but only on there back and stuff.
Get them.


Keep them covered during your interviews.


Only let them be seen if you want to waste several hours explaining them to the kids.





What DOLT would worry about a teacher having tattoos and teaching their kids? Only a closed minded, neo-con...........





Dont worry about it............get the ink...........
I wouldn't hire a teacher with visible tattoos. I don't want my daughter thinking that it's acceptable, when in actuality women with tattoos are treated differently. Men have less respect for women with lots of tattoos and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every man I know agrees with me and they discussed it one day on the morning show on WMMR. You have the right to decorate yourself however you see fit, but you have to realize that your looks are the first thing people notice about you, and right or wrong, they make snap decisions based on those looks.
We need more teachers. You might make a good one, if the kids see tatoos they might get some ideas. We don't want little kids going out getting tatoos. Keep it covered and if you can't, then explain that it never comes off.
Just don't have the tattoo where it is visible. And don't show it to your students. As a teacher you must be a good example. If you're planning to teach your students about having tattoos and piercings as a bad thing, then you have to practice what you preach. If it's the other way around, then having a tattoo is okay.
the school systems may have rules that all tattoos you have have to be covered. i know that a lot of other places of employment do, like department stores. i'm pretty sure teachers have them, but they aren't necessarily visible.





even though a lot of parents have tattoos, and they are becoming more socially acceptable, there is still a conservative contingent out there who might not like their child's teacher to have a visible tattoo.
They have, but this is not the issue.


You have already said it is important to you to be a good role model, so you must have already given this some thought, or have had advice that is making you think twice.





There are places of employment that frown upon piercings, and tattoo's.


I do believe piercings should be removed, and visible tattoo's should be covered with cover up during work hours.


What people do after hours is each persons choice.


But as a teacher you should be an example on, and off the job.


What teachers, and parents model is just as important, since it gives needed validity to what we teach.
Just don't get any that are too visible.





And don't sleep with the students, please.
God where were you when I was in school? Thats so so HOT!
tattoos are a statement and i would think you would encourage young people to make statements as long as no one is hurt. go for it.
Tatoos allow others to more easily judge you prematurely by sight alone. Whether the conclusions they draw are accurate or not, your interactions and negotiations with employers, parents, and students will always be inhibited by questions of your character.





Sad fact of life, but people judge on appearance, and when it comes to kids, parents are VERY protective, sometimes even irrational. Visible tatoos won't start you off on the right foot with them.





At the elementary school level, students are at an age where they are being taught to accept themselves for who they are. Body modification by their role models and mentors sends mixed messages. Tatoos also evoke certain aspects of life that young children don't need to know about. How will you feel when you reaach to erase the blackboard and your 7 year old students see the ';bullseye'; on your lower-back?





My advice: wait until you are teaching for a few years and decide then if they are appropriate.
You're a person too %26amp; you need to be you BUT.....you just need to show some tact %26amp; some class in how you do it. Elementry kids are very influenceable %26amp; it would be sad if you started them off in the wrong direction for whatever reason. Ink up!
Be yourself...if you want more tattoos in your body..go on..as long as your happy in whatever you made for yourself..but..as an elementary teacher with tattoos?..Not!..Its not good as a teacher like that..and i dont think that Dept.of Educ.are allowing you to do that...


You must think twice before you decide to put more tattoos..


Best luck to you!