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Originally Posted by peacebear5028
My debate teacher actually has tattoos on his arms, as well as an industrial and tongue piercing.
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I would LOVE to know where your school is! If a school allowed one or two tasteful piercings, I might consider teaching. There are some other reasons I'm not terribly fond of the idea of teaching, however, so perhaps not.
As far as schools go, I went to Catholic school until I was 11 (because the public school system is notorious for sucking in Louisiana), then my family moved to Georgia with my dad's job and I went to public school from there on out. Kids will pick on kids for any reason. They even picked on me in Catholic school when we had uniforms. It was worse, however, when I switched to public school, even during the stint when my parents got me the "popular" clothes to wear.
The school officially didn't allow piercings or unnatural colored hair, but I remember seeing a few people with both, so I don't think it was enforced terribly often. They had no problem with black clothing or pagan jewelry, and it's been awhile, but I think even chains and stuff like that were allowed. The only case I heard was one guy who got in-school suspension for something he didn't do, and as part of that he was required to not wear black.
In my case, I got far more "discrimination" and harassment from the other students, both when I dressed goth and when I didn't. Ironically enough, they harassed me less after I started wearing goth style clothing. Still got it some, but I finally got the balls to cuss one guy out when he made a smartass comment about the shirt I was wearing and I never heard any shit from anybody again.
But they were probably in shock from hearing me cuss, because I had the reputation of being a goody-goody. Except the time this girl didn't like the fact her boyfriend took a liking to me and started trying to spread rumors that I'd slept with him and that I was a slut. Which was hilarious because no one knew who I was, so the rumor didn't get very far, and the one person who heard it who knew me thought it was a different guy that I'd supposedly slept with. So...not being popular in school has its advantages.