History Main / TeachersOutOfSchool

* ''Remembering Mrs. Rossi'' is a novel about a grade-school teacher, Mrs. Rossi, who dies while seemingly still in the prime of her teaching career. In the novel, the students in her class write a book called "Remembering Mrs. Rossi," each with their own personal reminisces of her, and give the book to her young daughter. At the end of the novel is the book itself, which features a couple instances of this. One of them is a poem by a boy named Peter which includes the lines "Hey, Mrs. Rossi! I saw you / That time at the market / Yikes! Teacher in the market! / Hide! Duck! Spy! / Spy on Mrs. Rossi." Another is a story called "Neighbors" from a boy named Drew in which he reveals his secret - that Mrs. Rossi lives in the same apartment building as him. He never even knew that she was a teacher until he became a student in her class. He was worried that the kids in his class would find out and call him a teacher's pet, but they never did find out, and she never told. And, of course, the teacher's daughter, Anna, is a living example of the fact that teachers have lives outside of school and would have never grow up with this type of thinking.

* ''Remembering Mrs. Rossi'' is a novel about a grade-school teacher, Mrs. Rossi, who dies while seemingly still in the prime of her teaching career. In the novel, the students in her class write a book called "Remembering Mrs. Rossi," each with their own personal reminisces of her, and give the book to her young daughter. At the end of the novel is the book itself, which features a couple instances of this. One of them is a poem by a boy named Peter which includes the lines "Hey, Mrs. Rossi! I saw you / That time at the market / Yikes! Teacher in the market! / Hide! Duck! Spy! / Spy on Mrs. Rossi." Another is a story called "Neighbors" from a boy named Drew in which he reveals his secret - that Mrs. Rossi lives in the same apartment as him. He never even knew that she was a teacher until he became a student in her class. He was worried that the kids in his class would find out and call him a teacher's pet, but they never did find out, and she never told. And, of course, the teacher's daughter, Anna, is a living example of the fact that teachers have lives outside of school and would have never grow up with this type of thinking.

* ''My Teacher Sleeps in School'' is a children's book about kids trying to prove their teacher well, lives at school. Towards the end of the book the students are taken on a bus trip to the teacher's house and they learn teachers do in fact have lives outside of their jobs.

* In an early ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strip, Jeremy and Hector see one of their teachers coming out of a Victoria's secret store. They immediately race off to post about it on the internet.

* Subverted in Series/DoctorWho's episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]. When main characters are sneaking around a suspicious school at night, Rose says that she used to think that teachers sleep at school. A moment later...
--> '''Doctor''' (pointing at the ceiling, where "teachers" sleep in their [[GlamourFailure true alien form]]): Well... [[OhCrap They do]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': {{Inverted}} for most of the time in the case of Principal Seymour Skinner. Even though he's a Green Beret and [[ShellShockedVeteran Vietnam War veteran]], he's still probably [[TheBore the dullest person]] in all of Springfield. When he's not in work he ''thinks'' of working, he [[MommasBoy lives with his mother]], and he thinks a class trip to a ''[[MuseumOfBoredom box factory]]'' is [[IncrediblyLameFun exciting enough to do more than once]]. Even his more {{badass}} moments just depict him as a NonGivingUpSchoolGuy. However, this trope gets ZigZagged in the season five episode, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]: After Skinner loses his job, Bart gets to know him outside of work. Even though Skinner is as boring as ever, Bart ''still'' manages to befriend him.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' had an episode dedicated to this, where the group tries to figure out what Miss Briggs, their EvilTeacher, does outside of school. Freddy lampshaded this trope earlier in the episode by pointing out, "You never really think of teachers having lives outside of school," and Sam admits that she always assumed they just slept in the teacher's lounge at night.

* Invoked and subverted in Series/DoctorWho's episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]. When main characters are sneaking around a suspicious school at night, Rose says that she used to think that teachers sleep at school. A moment later...

* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' episode "Mrs. Westlake". In a previous episode, Theo Huxtable was assigned to the toughest math teacher at his school, a woman named Mrs. Westlake. In this episode, Theo's dad invites Mrs. Westlake and her husband to dinner, much to Theo's dread. However, outside the school environment, she turns out to be quite charming.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' had an episode dedicated to this, where the group tries to figure out what Miss Briggs, Their EvilTeacher, does outside of school. Freddy lampshaded this trope earlier in the episode by pointing, "You never really think of teachers having lives outside of school," and Sam admits that she always assumed they just slept in the teacher's lounge at night.

* Occasionally inverted on ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus''. Just because Mrs. Frizzle's class isn't in school doesn't mean they can't still have a field trip. Luckily, Mrs. Frizzle doesn't mind being visited by her class after school hours.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' had the teachers go on strike. Because of the strike, the kids rejoiced that they could spend their days out of school, but found that the teachers all had found temporary jobs at all the places they liked to hang out. The kids return to school to avoid the teachers, but are evicted by Principal Wartz and tells them every day the strike goes on, they cut days from summer vacation. That's when Arnold vows to end the strike as soon as possible.
* Most of the time, Mr. Lancer of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a NonGivingUpSchoolGuy. When Danny holds a garage sale to earn money, Lancer buys an electric razor, prompting a mocking statement from Tucker about his apparent lack of hair. He also invokes this trope to motivate students into pitying him by discussing his sister who lives too far away to visit, but it really is [[WigDressAccent him in drag]].

* ''My Teacher Sleeps in School'' is a children's book about kids trying to prove their teacher well, lives at school. Towards the end of the book the students are taken on a bus trip to the teacher's house and they learn teachers do in fact have lives.

* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' episode "Mrs. Westlake". In a previous episode Theo Huxtable was assigned to the toughest math teacher at his school, Mrs. Westlake. In this episode Doctor Huxtable invites Mrs. Westlake and her husband to dinner, much to Theo's dread. However, outside the school environment she turns out to be quite charming.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' had an episode dedicated to this, where the group tries to figure out what Miss Briggs, Their EvilTeacher, does outside of school.

** Another episode was about the main six discovering that their homeroom teacher, Mrs. Grotke, had a secret double life.
** ''Recess: School's Out'' subverts this trope, because the characters are fully aware that their teachers get a summer vacation as well, and T.J. says he intends to T.P. the golf course that Principal Prickly regularly attends.
* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' featured a robot for a teacher named Mrs. Bolt. Her class thinks of her as just a machine that makes their lives miserable, until one episode where her husband chose to invite her class over for a party. Lloyd was surprised that Mrs. Bolt had a life outside teaching, and a husband.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': {{Inverted}} for most of the time in the case of Principal Seymour Skinner. Even though he's a Green Beret and [[ShellShockedVeteran Vietnam War veteran]], he's still probably [[TheBore the dullest person]] in whole of Springfield. When he's not in work he ''thinks'' of working, he [[MommasBoy lives with his mother]], and he thinks a class trip to a ''[[MuseumOfBoredom box factory]]'' is [[IncrediblyLameFun exciting enough to do more than once]]. Even his more {{badass}} moments just depict him as a NonGivingUpSchoolGuy. However, this trope gets ZigZagged in the season five episode, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]: After Skinner loses his job, Bart gets to know him outside of work. Even though Skinner is as boring as ever, Bart ''still'' manages to befriend him.

* Most of the time, Mr. Lancer of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a NonGivingUpSchoolGuy. When Danny holds a garage sale to earn money, Lancer buys an electric razor, prompting a mocking statement from Tucker about his apparent lack of hair. He also invokes this trope to motivate students into pitying him by discussing his sister who lives too far away to visit, but it really is [[WigDressAccent him wearing a dress]].

* ''Remembering Mrs. Rossi'' is a novel about a grade-school teacher, Mrs. Rossi, who dies while seemingly still in the prime of her teaching career. In the novel, the students in her class write a book called "Remembering Mrs. Rossi," each with their own personal reminisces of her, and give the book to her young daughter. At the end of the novel is the book itself, which features a couple instances of this. One of them is a poem by a boy named Peter which includes the lines "Hey, Mrs. Rossi! I saw you / That time at the market / Yikes! Teacher in the market! / Hide! Duck! Spy! / Spy on Mrs. Rossi." Another is a story called "Neighbors" from a boy named Drew in which he reveals his secret - that Mrs. Rossi lives in the same apartment as him. He never even knew that she was a teacher until he became a student in her class. He was worried that the kids in his class would find out and call him a teacher's pet, but they never did find out, and she never told.

* ''Remembering Mrs. Rossi'' is a novel about a grade-school teacher, Mrs. Rossi, who dies while seemingly still in the prime of her teaching career. In the novel, the students in her class write a book called "Remembering Mrs. Rossi," each with their own personal reminisces of her, and give the book to her young daughter. At the end of the novel is the book itself, which features a couple instances of this. One of them is a poem by a boy named Peter which includes the lines "Hey, Mrs. Rossi! I saw you / That time at the market / Yikes! Teacher in the market! / Hide! Duck! Spy! / Spy on Mrs. Rossi." Another is a story called "Neighbors" from a boy named Drew in which he reveals his secret - that Mrs. Rossi lives in the same apartment as him. He was worried that the kids in his class would find out and call him a teacher's pet, but they never did find out, and she never told.

* ''My Teacher Lives at School'' is a children's book about kids trying to prove their teacher well, lives at school. Towards the end of the book the students are taken on a bus trip to the teacher's house and they learn teachers do in fact have lives.

* In ''HarryPotter,'' Harry winds up interacting with his teachers outside of school fairly often, especially after the Second War starts in the middle of the series. He notes that it was particularly odd when he once saw [[SternTeacher Professor McGonagall]] show up in {{Muggle}} clothes.

* {{Subverted}} in ''InvaderZim,'' because according to [[AllThereInTheManual some bonus material]], [[AmbiguouslyHuman Ms. Bitters]] ''never'' leaves school--the building was actually built around her. Of course, this doesn't fit with [[MultipleChoicePast other statements about her]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' starts with Spinelli discovering not only that [[SadistTeacher Ms. Finster]] goes out shopping like a normal person, but that she's a friend of her parents.

* A subplot in ''Film/{{Meangirls}}'' involves the protagonist's inadvertent sabotage of Ms. Norbury's reputation. A lot of other characters don't quite understand that teachers are also people.

* ''Series/iCarly'' had an episode dedicated to this, where the group tries to figure out what Miss Briggs, Their EvilTeacher, does outside of school.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': At one point Calvin's parents mention seeing his teacher [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ms. Wormwood]] at the supermarket. Calvin remarks that he just kind of assumed that teachers slept in coffins all summer.