History Main / FiredTeacher

* ''The Male Animal'' takes place in the wake of several professors being dismissed from Midwestern University because of alleged "Red" leanings. The trustees warn Tommy Turner in no uncertain terms that they will force him to resign if he reads in class the last statement written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the anarchist who was executed for murder. Tommy decides to stand up for his rights instead, and reads Vanzetti's statement to the trustees. They relent.

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* Geo's homeroom teacher in ''MegamanStarForce'' is threatened with being fired when he protests using an experimental teaching tool on children. The principal gets his ass fired when the technology proves unsafe ''the very next day''. He still manages to wind up as ''a country singer'' at the Grizzly Peaks resort.

%%* Ms. Pomeroy (Creator/DrewBarrymore) in ''Film/DonnieDarko''.
%%** Her [[AtomicFBomb reaction]] is priceless.

* ''Series/GrowingPains'': Coach Graham T. Lubbock, months after finally winning a full-term teaching job at Dewey High School, is pink slipped. Mike � who earlier had complained about Lubbock for keeping him in line (despite his comically inept teaching skills and authority keeping) � learns that Lubbock is struggling to support a pregnant wife and seven children, and are living in an upstairs, small apartment on the poor side of town. Mike realizes that teachers are not suck-the-fun-out-of-everything assholes but people who care about their students, work hard and are underpaid even if supporting a large family. Mike rallies the entire school behind Coach Lubbock. Doesn't work � Mike (and Carol, too) are suspended and Lubbock is blacklisted.

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* Fräulein von Bernburg in ''Film/MadchenInUniform'' gets fired in the end because of the TeacherStudentRomance between her and the female protagonist.

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* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Maggie Larkin is fired from the Nathan Hale Elementary School after she gave her second grade class a sex education lesson and the principal saw the pictures she drew on the blackboard. ("How else do you explain anything to seven year old children?", she says to her indignant fiancé Guido.) Grace Bannerman, who to Maggie's surprise actually knows more about child psychology than her, leads an effort to have Maggie reinstated, which ultimately happens after she has a candid talk with the principal, Mr. Vandenberg.

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* ''Series/GrowingPains'': Coach Graham T. Lubbock, months after finally winning a full-term teaching job at Dewey High School, is pink slipped. Mike – who earlier had complained about Lubbock for keeping him in line (despite his comically inept teaching skills and authority keeping) – learns that Lubbock is struggling to support a pregnant wife and seven children, and are living in an upstairs, small apartment on the poor side of town. Mike realizes that teachers are not suck-the-fun-out-of-everything assholes but people who care about their students, work hard and are underpaid even if supporting a large family. Mike rallies the entire school behind Coach Lubbock. Doesn't work – Mike (and Carol, too) are suspended and Lubbock is blacklisted.
** Until, that is, we conveniently remember that this is [[PilotEpisode a pilot episode]] for a soon-to-premiere spin-off TV series on ABC (called ''Just the Ten Of Us''), and Lubbock gets a tenured teaching job at a private school ... in California.

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* Ms. Pomeroy (Creator/DrewBarrymore) in ''Film/DonnieDarko''.
** Her [[AtomicFBomb reaction]] is priceless.
* Peter Venkman in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''.

* Huey's teacher in TheBoondocks 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).

** It has. Recently, a teacher at a Catholic school was fired when it was discovered that she used invitro fertilization (forbidden by the church) to conceive, while a teacher at a private Baptist school was fired when it was realized that she conceived her child before she and her husband married. Adding to the UnfortunateImplications, despite being equally responsible for the out-of-wedlock pregnancy, her white husband was allowed to keep ''his'' job, while she, African-American, lost hers.

* In the kids' novel ''Literature/The Landry News'' by Andrew Clements [[spoiler:Mr. Larson is nearly fired after printing a controversial story in the school newspaper]].

* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Maggie Larkin is fired from the Nathan Hale Elementary School after she gave her second grade class a sex education lesson and the principal saw the pictures she drew on the blackboard. ("How else do you explain anything to seven year old children?", she says to her outraged fiancé Guido.)

* ''GrowingPains'': Coach Graham T. Lubbock, months after finally winning a full-term teaching job at Dewey High School, is pink slipped. Mike – who earlier had complained about Lubbock for keeping him in line (despite his comically inept teaching skills and authority keeping) – learns that Lubbock is struggling to support a pregnant wife and seven children, and are living in an upstairs, small apartment on the poor side of town. Mike realizes that teachers are not suck-the-fun-out-of-everything assholes but people who care about their students, work hard and are underpaid even if supporting a large family. Mike rallies the entire school behind Coach Lubbock. Doesn't work – Mike (and Carol, too) are suspended and Lubbock is blacklisted.

* The shop teacher on ''{{Popular}}'' gets fired after coming out as {{Transsexual}}.

* This happened to a HippieTeacher of Kevin's on ''TheWonderYears''.
* Mike Delaney on ''AllMyChildren'' was fired for coming out to his class. In this instance he was reinstated after suing the school board.

* ''OneTreeHill'': [[CoolTeacher Haley]] is fire by [[ReplacementScrappy Principal Rimkus]] after she chooses an honest if not necessarily [[ThinkOfTheChildren school appropriate]] essay contest submission written by a troubled foster child student. MoralGuardians want her to change her choice to something fluffy and innocent, Haley refuses, and she is promptly fired. Her students leave school during her class period and ''travel to her house'' to be taught by her, because the principal (who is subbing for her until a replacement is found) is a terrible teacher who ''failed them all because they couldn't learn from her'', but it didn't save her job. (A conversation between Haley and Rimkus at the end of the episode suggests that Haley ''could'' have potentially gotten her job back, but she would've had to apologize for choosing the honest, best essay, which she refused to do for the sake of her status as a role model.)

* 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]].

* In ''Rally Round the Flag, Boys!'' by Max Shulman, Maggie is fired from the Nathan Hale Elementary School after she gave her second grade class a sex education lesson and the principal saw the pictures she drew on the blackboard. ("How else do you explain anything to seven year old children?", she says to her unsympathetic fiancé Guido.)

* Mr. Crocker in ''TheFairlyOddparents'' became this when a seemingly nice substitute teacher showed up and Timmy wished she was the permanent teacher. The BetterTheDevilYouKnow trope came into play. It was so evident the episode's Brazilian title was a variation of the trope with a word for "crazy" instead of a word for "devil".

* Quistis Trepe from ''FinalFantasyVIII'' is fired from being a [=SeeD=] instructor because of her "lack of leadership skill," after one of her students disobeys orders during the [=SeeD=] field exam and nearly gets his squad and a member of another squad killed as a result. Her one-sided crush on and favoritism toward one of her students may also have had something to do with it.

* ''GrowingPains'': Coach Graham T. Lubbock, months after finally winning a full-term teaching job at Dewey High School, is pink slipped. Mike – who earlier had complained about Lubbock for keeping him in line (despite his comically inept teaching skills and authority keeping) – learns that Lubbock is struggling to support a pregnant wife and seven children, and are living in an upstairs, small apartment on the poor side of town. Mike realizes that teachers are not suck-the-fun-out-of-everything assholes but people and rallies the entire school behind Coach Lubbock. Doesn't work – Mike (and Carol, too) are suspended and Lubbock is blacklisted. (Until, that is, we conveniently remember that this is [[PilotEpisode a pilot episode]] for a soon-to-premiere spin-off TV series on ABC (called ''Just the Ten Of Us''), and Lubbock gets a tenured teaching job at a private school ... in California.

* This trope is relatively rare in RealLife due to the existence of tenure. Absent gross incompetence or misconduct, tenured teachers are very difficult to fire, especially college professors.[[labelnote:*]]This is to protect the professors' freedom of speech and expression, since their duties include doing research and writing potentially controversial academic papers as well as teaching.[[/labelnote]] On the other hand, non-tenured teachers are fair game, and school administration can quickly identify and get rid of a teacher who is clearly ill-suited to his/her job.

* Quistis Trepe from ''FinalFantasyVIII'' is fired from being a See-D teacher because of her "lack of leadership skill," possibly also involves her one sided affair with one of her students.
** It's also implied that she lost her teaching job due to Seifer disobeying orders during the SeeD exam and nearly getting his squad (Squall and Zell) plus a messenger (Selphie) killed and this reflecting badly on her.

* Jamie in ''{{Family}}'' gets fired after the Christian school she teaches at finds out she's polyamorous.

* This happens twice in VideoGame/{{Bully}}, both times to SadistTeachers. Mr Hattrick is fired after a side mission where he's exposed as taking bribes from the parents of the Preppy clique to give the students better grades. Mr Burton, however, is fired at the end of the game after Jimmy exposes him as a [[HotForStudent pervert who has a thing for the students]].

* This happens twice in VideoGame/{{Bully}}, both times to SadistTeachers. Mr Hattrick is fired after a side mission where he's exposed as taking bribes from the parents of the Preppy clique to give the students better grades. Mr Burton, however, is fired at the end of the game after Jimmy exposes him as a [[HotForStudent pervert who has a thing for the students]]