Politically-Motivated Teacher/Playing With

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  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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