![]() During one workout, his instructor had to examine Hertz’s injured tattooed ankle. When Hertz was 26, he started taking martial arts classes. Hertz would go on to play guitar in a punk rock band that toured the US and Europe where the offensive ankle tattoo was unimportant or went unmentioned. “She said, ‘What is that?’ And I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I’m dead,’ and tried to say casually, ‘It’s just a tattoo.’ She said, ‘Wow,’ and that was it.” When Hertz was 19, his family went to the beach, and he couldn’t hide the tattoo from his mother. Still, he didn’t show off his tattoo, wearing pants or yanked-up socks. He views his ch oice of tattoo now as “very impulsive teenage stuff,” but Hertz was a punk rocker at the time. When special education teacher Ryan Hertz was 14 his neighbor, having learned tattooing in prison, used an ersatz tattoo gun made from a guitar string and Walkman motor to tattoo a picture of a punk flipping the bird on Hertz’s ankle. (Bottom) Hertz has a dragon head tattooed on his left bicep. Ryan Hertz, special education teacher (Left to right) Ryan Hertz’s tattoos include a Chinese guardian foo-dog Saint Michael a dragon a girl and boy holding hands with the quote “Crazy Love” an eagle honoring his mother. The Tribune is proud to share their tattoo tales. Whether the culture at FUHS has changed or whether FUHS is changing the culture doesn’t matter: faculty and staff should be who they want to be. Thus I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that staff at FUHS don’t hide their body art. My middle school’s teachers and staff probably had tattoos, too, but they never showed them. We found out about them only because one day she turned up the heat too high and took off her cardigan. ![]() ![]() My kindergarten teacher had tattoos on her left arm. ![]()
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