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In [[Real Life]] and in fiction, a teacher who stands out in any way, does something even slightly unconventional, disagrees with the school's management, etc. [[Contractual Purity|often gets fired for it]]. The teacher tries to get back his/her job, the students and/or some parents rally behind them...and yet, the teacher still remains fired.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', after Mr. Keating is blamed for {{spoiler|Neil's suicide}}.

* Ms. Pomeroy ([[Drew Barrymore]]) in ''[[Donnie Darko]]''.

* Peter Venkman in ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.

* ''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'' by Paula Danziger - Ms. Feeney gets fired for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance, though her [[Hippie Teacher]] ways probably also led to her downfall. {{spoiler|After a fair amount of effort by her students, she gets reinstated, but ultimately does not return, as she would be under a fair amount of scrutiny and would not be able to teach as she wished.}}

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series:

** Dumbledore was forced into resignation twice over the course of the books (well, three times if you count {{spoiler|his being killed}}).

** Hagrid might also qualify as the "perpetually-almost-about-to-get-fired" teacher.

** Sybill Trelawney also qualifies as she was fired by [[Sadist Teacher|Dolores Umbridge]] [[Humiliation Conga|in front of the whole school]]. {{spoiler|This is later subverted in the same book as she gets her job back when Dolores gets fired herself.}}

* Averted in James Hilton's ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'', in that Mr. Chipping, though ordered to retire for refusing to adopt modern methods (such as adopting the New Pronuncation of Latin and placing emphasis on high marks rather than on character development), ''is'' reinstated by the protests of his students and their parents.

** The point being that it's a pretty upscale school and the students' parents, many of whom were his students as children, are now Earls, Viscounts and all that.

* In the kids' novel ''The Landry News'' by Andrew Clements {{spoiler|Mr. Larson is nearly fired after printing a controversial story in the school newspaper}}.

* Chaim Potok's ''[[The Chosen]]'' and ''The Promise'' go into this. Reuven's father helped found a Modern Orthodox high school yeshiva, but is, if not fired, edged out by the more conservative faculty that move in after the war. Reuven and Danny got to a yeshiva college where they both have professors who can't cover topics they'd really like to for fear of complaints.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Another issue was that there were some students who simply didn't have hidden potential to be drawn out. Needless to say, those kids' parents were furious.

** If memory serves, the problem was that she could ''only'' draw out the musical and artistic talents. The kid might have had the potential to be the best pilot the world has ever seen, but she couldn't help him. So yes, the parents were furious.

* Mike Delaney on ''[[All My Children]]'' was fired for coming out to his class. In this instance he was reinstated after suing the school board.

* On ''[[Glee]]'' when Sue becomes the new principal, she fires Mr Shuester. His students come to his defense and then the replacement teacher pisses Sue off even more than Will does. At the end of the episode she rehires him.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** Krabappel gets suspended after hitting Bart. While not fired as such, it is implied that the suspension is indefinite.

*** She was also fired in another episode, more specifically after Bart and the rest of the students spiked her drink with alcohol for innocent reasons (they wanted her to loosen up. It worked too well). In the same episode, the replacement teacher also got fired from being drunk on duty, only that time it was the teacher alone who was responsible for it.

* Mr. Garrison in ''[[South Park]]'' becomes this after coming out of the closet in the "Fourth Grade" episode. After being re-hired later on, he tries to get fired again in order to get rich off of a discrimination lawsuit.

* Huey's teacher in [[The Boondocks]] ended up fired in the christmas episode because he used Huey's script for the school play (a script that was constantly rewritten by the Principal).

 

== [[Video Game]] ==

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