Politically-Motivated Teacher/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A teacher brings his/her political or religious beliefs into the classroom, whether it's appropriate to do so or not.
 * Played Straight: Ms. Smith's history lesson clears up any abiguity as to what part of the political spectrum she's on.
 * Exaggerated: Ms. Smith fails anyone who disagrees with her.
 * Justified: Ms. Smith is a teacher at an Assimilation Academy of some sort.
 * Or even if it's not an Assimilation Academy, the school system requires it.
 * Ms. Smith is a Soapbox Sadie type character outside of the classroom as well as in it.
 * Inverted: The students of Ms. Smith all have strong political opinions. She insists that they keep their debates out of the classroom.
 * Subverted: Ms. Smith dresses and seems like a Hippie Teacher, but it otherwise doesn't affect her teaching.
 * Double Subverted: Until the history class gets to The Sixties, and her passion for that era comes out in her lesson.
 * Deconstructed: May be viewed as unfair and biased by parents and students, or lead to brainwashing.
 * Reconstructed: Ms. Smith makes no secret or bones about her own political views but is open-minded; she's willing to encourage the students to develop their own views on the issues she discusses rather than expect them to blindly parrot hers.
 * Parodied: Ms. Smith's classroom is decorated with paraphernalia from her political persuasion.
 * Lampshaded: "Just you wait and see; with Ms. Smith as our math teacher, it's going to be forty-five minutes of The Proper Role of Multiplication in Modern Society."
 * Averted: Ms. Smith does not bring politics into the classroom.
 * Ms. Smith teaches about what her side believes and what the other side believes, and lets the students think for themselves with no repercussions.
 * Enforced: "Let's make some commentary on how schools influence politics, or how parents' politics influence schools!"
 * Invoked: The P.T.A. in a very conservative community wants books, lessons, and teachers that will better help their kids learn right.
 * Defied: Ms. Smith doesn't believe that politics should be brought into the classroom. If she wants the kids to understand the context behind the beliefs and actions of a group, she will explain them, but not push the students to agree (or disagree) with them.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: Political Satire
 * Played For Drama: Society goes down the toilet (or not, Depending On the Writer) as the next generation is brainwashed into this ideology.