The 10 Worst Teachers and Principals From Pop Culture
From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to Mean Girls, on-screen educators have a talent for causing trouble. Here are the worst offenders.
- By Eleanor Barkhorn
- Smithsonian.com, April 15, 2013
Mr. Keating shows he’s not your average prep-school instructor in all sorts of ways: encouraging his students to stand on their desks, requesting to be called “O Captain, My Captain,” and so on. But perhaps the most bizarre (and therefore the most delightful to his buttoned-up pupils) example of his iconoclasm comes when he instructs his class to rip out the introduction to their poetry books.
Movie-world consequences: None for this particular incident, though Mr. Keating does eventually get fired for other reasons.
Real-world consequences: “There would definitely be some kind of citation for destruction of property,” says Bradford Uchacz, Vice President of Imagine Schools and a former principal and assistant principal in Mesa, Arizona, “either asking employee to pay retribution or something along those lines.”
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