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** Hagrid might also qualify as the "perpetually-almost-about-to-get-fired" teacher. |
** Hagrid might also qualify as the "perpetually-almost-about-to-get-fired" teacher. |
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** 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.}} |
** 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.}} |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* Mr. Mell from ''[[David Copperfield]]''. |
* Mr. Mell from ''[[David Copperfield]]''. |
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