😯 Did your kindergarten teacher........ 😯

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

Look like this?

French man says tattoo-covered face cost him kindergarten teaching job
11:57 AM EDT September 28, 2020

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.

A couple of months later the school authorities informed him he would no longer teach kindergarten children, he said. "I think the decision they took was quite sad," said Helaine.

A spokesman for the local education authority said an agreement was reached with Helaine to move him away from teaching kindergarten. Pupils under six "could be frightened by his appearance", the spokesman said.

Despite the setbacks, Helaine said he would stick with his chosen career. "I'm a primary school teacher ... I love my job."
He said he started getting tattoos at the age of 27 when, while teaching at a private school in London, he had an "existential crisis". Since then, he said, "Getting tattoos is my passion."

He said he hoped to show his pupils that they should accept people who are different from the norm. "Maybe when they are adults they will be less racist and less homophobic and more open-minded," he said.

SOURCE: CNN

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qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

hey guy: Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

I had the same kindergarten teacher my father did in Pasadena, CA. She definitely did not look like that!

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

LOL!!! That's because he would scare the kids.

beckyb1012 · ‎03-09-2010

We did not have that grade back when I was in school. Started with first grade and her name was Mrs. Beasley. "Family Affair" was a popular t.v. program then so that is what she always reminded me of.

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chiclets · ‎07-01-2012

No

I would have liked that teacher to have taught my Classic class in college!

My kindergarten teacher was a middle aged woman. She called my father in to see her and the principal because my dad always told me to say that if anyone should ever ask him what he does to tell them that he stays home and plays pinochle all day, and so I did.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

This dude is stupid.

I was too poor for kindergarten, too old for Head Start.

But at least I got some common sense somewhere along the way. More than this guy apparently.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

No, she was in her fifties - ancient to a five year old.

Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

He's still teaching. Just not kindergarten. I think he'll be fine. It's France. They can handle it.

I had two different kindergarten teachers because we moved in the middle of the school year. The first was an angel straight from heaven. The second one dragged one poor kid around by the ear every day and tore up our drawings and terrorized everyone. She retired the year after I had her.

Neither teacher had visible tattoos. (No idea whether they had any hidden ones and don't care.) Tattoos would not have made a lick of difference as to their inner characters and actions. The second one scared everyone because she was a mean old, but respectable looking, witch.

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KailaS · ‎03-09-2010

@DiAnne wrote:
I had the same kindergarten teacher my father did in Pasadena, CA. She definitely did not look like that!

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Many decades ago I had the same Kindergarten teacher my dad had. My younger sister had her too. I started Kindergarten later in the year (1952) because we were quarantined due to my mom's polio. But that teacher made my introduction to school amazing, positive, and wonderful. Piercings and body art were not popular then.