Can You Believe This Kindergarten Teacher Lost His Job Because Children Were Scared Of Him?

Reuters- 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.

Congratulations Millennials, I think you are finally off the hook for being known as the soft generation now that these softies over in France have added another another feather to their feather-soft reputation. Back in my day, we embraced our Kindergarten teacher for who they were. It doesn't matter if they were some peaceful macaroni-wearing necklace hippy like Miss Lippy or someone that looked like one the lizard people from Land of the Lost. 

Of course nobody actually looked like one of those lizard people because if they did, the probably wouldn't have gotten the job in the first place since even I am scared of those fuckers all these years later as a grown ass man that's a father of two kids. If you want to work at a school but also want to look like a monster from kids' nightmares, maybe apply for a job that kids associate with fear, like principal. You think kids of any age will misbehave if they know they will be sent to this motherfucker's office?

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Let me be clear though, I have no problem with tattoos. My brother from another mother at this company, Bob Fox, will soon be more ink than man and will be my dude long after that happens. However, once he literally tattoos his eyeballs black, I'll have to think about when I can have him around my kids since I'll be dealing with them waking up in the middle of the night worried Uncle Robbie was going to eat them. Don't get me wrong, I'll still invite over Robbie when the threat of Santa Claus doesn't work on making my kids behave. But having him over on an NFL Sunday to watch our fantasy team beat the shit out of all the other teams in the Barstool fantasy football league will be harder to do once he goes full rock star in Pup Punk and gives himself the same eyes as the guitarist from Limp Bizkit.

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