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This may be [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by the presence of an [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] running things, or the pragmatic view that even when screentime is spent on characters actually being in class, it's not the ''lessons'' that are important to the plot. It's also a way to avoid the expense of creating and animating an entire classroom filled with people.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' also suffers from this. In fact it gets progressively worse as the five seasons go on. There was one teacher, [[Christmas Cake|Sakurada Haruna]] in the first season. By the fifth season even she had vanished. (Understandably since the girls were in a different school now... but really...)
* Averted in ''[[Gokusen]]'';Yamaguchi and Fujiyama get the lion's share of the attention,but there's a reasonable complement of teachers in the background that are shown occasionally.
* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' managed to avert this, with a decent number of teachers at the school--they even brought in student teachers early on. In ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'', on the other hand, this trope is in full effect. And the school in ''[[Yes Precure 5|Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' is a [[Two
* ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' has only Itoshiki-sensei and Chie-sensei, who is introduced as the school's guidance counselor but also teaches classes on occasion (read: when Itoshiki-sensei is too in despair to care about his class.) Also, Jinroku -- what he teaches is unclear -- is shown for a few seconds in one episode, then disappears until season two with a weird tattoo on his back.
* ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'' only ever shows two teachers: Mrs. Chevreuse, who simply exists so we can have a demonstration of [[Stuff Blowing Up|what happens when Louise tries to cast a spell]] and to [[Mr. Exposition|explain the basics of magic]], and [[Badass Teacher|Mr. Colbert]], who actually has plot relevance. This isn't counting the [[Dirty Old Man|principal, Old Osmond]].
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* Averted in ''[[Happy Lesson]]'' since Chitose's teachers all decide to adopt him and become his mother (non-Chitose-related teachers, though, tend not to show up).
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the only teacher that gets any major screen time is Onsen Mark, and the only other staff visible is the principal and Sakura, the school nurse.
* In ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', the teachers (except for Hinako) are seldom shown (because most of the stuff that happens is not at the school or not during class) and he only knows about Principal Kuno because of the latter's crazy antics. The anime does actually show the existence of more teachers, but they are never named and do so little (only a few speaking lines throughout all seven seasons, and are usually just shown on screen as, at most, Principal Kuno's unwilling goons) that it still manages to qualify for this trope. Well, it's a ''Three'' Teacher School if one counts minor character Higuma Torajiro, a temporary teacher for Ranma's homeroom who is functionally a parody of the [[Well
* Whenever [[Inuyasha|Kagome]] makes it to school in the modern era, the teachers seldom have face time.
* ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'', being largely a Go-related series, doesn't show any school teachers unless they have something to do with said game.
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** Justified in that 'Jennings Goes to School' states that the school only has 78 pupils. Five teachers is a reasonable number for that many boys.
* Is used in The Candy Shop War, but it's pretty justified considering that the students are in an elementary school and only need one teacher.
* [[A Series of Unfortunate Events|Prufrock Prep's]] teaching staff seems to consist of only Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass, and later [[Paper
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* ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'' Ced was the gym/health teacher/football/basketball coach and Steve was the music/art/drama teacher and later, vice principal. There was a dance teacher, an English teacher, and a social studies teacher as well as other faculty members, but they only showed up when the plot demanded it, so Ced and Steve were pretty much it at Booker T. Washington High School.
* The only faculty typically featured on [[Glee]] are Will, guidance counselor Emma, Principal Figgins, Cheerios coach Sue Sylvester and either football coach. Other faculty appear frequently in the teacher's lounge, but both teachers and students are rarely shown in class, giving the impression that virtually all of the day's activities are football, cheerleading or Glee-related. It got jarring in [[Gwyneth Paltrow|Gwyneth Paltrow's]] episode as a substitute teacher, reminding us that Will does, in fact, teach Spanish at some point every day.
** Also played ''very'' straight with Dalton Academy, were there appear to be no teachers whatsoever. Dalton is introduced in the sixth episode of season two, but no teachers turn up until the fifth episode of season ''three'', and the only reason she is even assumed by the vieweer to be a teacher is because she's the only female in a [[One
* ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'' has this. Mr Gilbert, Mr Kennedy and Ms Timms are the only teachers to have appeared in the series (though the principal turns up in a deleted scene). Somewhat justified in that, while the boys are frequently shown at school, it's generally only at the start of the day, at lunchtime or at the end of the day.
* Averted in ''[[Carrusel]]''. Ximena only teaches second grade. Susana only teachers her own class. Rene only teaches music. There is also an art teacher. And a teacher named Gloria who teachers yet another class. And Sra. Orraca is only the director and does not teach any classes. Finally, Fermin is the groundskeeper- he may count as well.
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== Video Games ==
* Seen in ''Pokemon Ranger'' :Shadows of Almia, in which there are literally two teachers. Semi-justified in which it's a school for Pokemon rangers. {{spoiler|Until one of the teachers mysteriously leaves...}} and they bring in a SUBSTITUTE teacher. Where'd he come from?
* ''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|Rival Schools]]'' naturally falls into this trope, as only a handful of faculty from a few schools are ever shown in the games. Taiyo High has gym teacher [[Hot Blooded|Hayato]] as a playable character, with science instructor [[Mad Scientist|Hyoe]] and office clerk [[Hot Mom|Shizuku]] showing up in the [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] character creation modes. Justice High's only known faculty are Japanese teacher [[Cool Old Guy|Hideo]], [[School Nurse]]/chemistry teacher [[Christmas Cake|Kyoko]] and principal [[Large and In Charge|Raizo]]. Gorin High also has volleyball coach [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|Kohtaro]] and sumo instructor [[Stout Strength|Kinzan]], but they only show up in character creation modes.
* ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' features an orphanage with over 20 children, but it only has one teacher/headmaster, a cleaning lady who doubles as a cook and one orphan who is sixteen years old and acts as a makeshift nurse. {{spoiler|They all dissappear in the course of the story, leaving the orphanage entirely in the control of the Aristocrat Club.}}
* Averted in ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]]'' - the teachers aren't major characters in either case (though one's a Social Link in the former), but there's a different teacher for every class.
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** Lampshaded further in an episode where the students visit Mr Barkin's father at a Living History (early American History, where every character has an [[Identical Grandfather]] to be precise) community where he too implausibly performs every single job in town.
** Coach Barkin generally drops [[Noodle Incident|some reason for the absence of the regular teacher]]; just enough to give us the idea that had they given us the full story, it would be hilarious, and a whole show could be built based solely on the things that incapacitate the teachers Barkin covers for.
* Similarly, the teaching faculty of Springfield Elementary on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' seems to consist entirely of Miss Krabappel, Ms. Hoover, Mr. Largo, and Ms. Pommelhorst (who later became Mr. Pummelhorst due to a sex-change operation). The small size of the faculty is subject of a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in one episode where it is revealed that Lunch Lady Doris is also the school nurse (due to the fact that she likes getting two paychecks working as a lunchlady and a school nurse) and another where, due to school budget cuts, Lunchlady Doris is now the school nurse while Groundskeeper Willie has been hired out as a French teacher ("''Bonjourrrrrrrr'', ya [[Cheese
** Principal Skinner has also taught a few classes as a substitute to otherwise detained teachers. And of course in one episode there was the near-perfect Mr. Bergstrom...
** Justified since this is an elementary school in a world where the kids don't grow up, so Bart and Lisa's classes are always going to have the same teachers.
*** In a few episodes some more unnamed teachers can be seen in the faculty room.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', first Lancer's the vice principal, then English teacher, then the biology, then the astronomy teacher, then basically whatever the plot calls for in the future. It wasn't until the second season that enough focus was put on another teacher long enough to actually get to speak.
** Principal Ishiyama had brief speaking roles in season 1, and there was a short balding teacher we only ever saw twice (Mr. Faluca). Coach Tetslaff, though, could be seen as the second teacher in the [[Two
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'', where Miss Bitters seems to run most of the important things (though we do see Gaz's teacher once, and there's a nurse who shows up at some point).
** There's also the "skool" counselor Mr. Dwicky and a rather intimidating principal. And Coach Walrus. (Actually, this may be an aversion.)
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