Switch not ON

Definition of Switched:ON = Electricity. to connect, disconnect, or redirect (an electric circuit or the device it serves) by operating a switch (often fol. by off or on): I switched on a light.

Apparently, our switches have to be switched on once we are in the teaching profession. Being a teacher, sometimes it challenges our own conscience and principles. As teachers, we are expected to be the role model to students, to be 'perfect' examples. We are to follow the rules. What happens when a teacher is not as perfect as it is deemed to be? Or if our 'Switches' are never switched on? Do we conform or do we do stay the way we are?