History Main / MisplacedKindergartenTeacher

Compare HippieTeacher, with whom this sometimes overlaps. CoolTeacher can be even better. Contrast SadistTeacher, with which this can overlap, and SternTeacher. May overlap TormentedTeacher. See also ProfessionalVoiceDissonance if the teacher's "kingdergarten voice" sounds different from their actual speaking voice.

* Ms. Grotke in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has the voice, but is otherwise more of a HippieTeacher. The reason she has the voice is because Allyce Beasley ''did'' talk to kindergartners in her capacity as the continuity announcer for Creator/DisneyChannel's Playhouse Disney block.

** Ted himself is stuck in the mindset of a college football coach at first, emphasizing helping his players grow as people rather than win games. Beard points out to him that the "winning isn't everything" mindset may work for college students, but the AFC Richmond players are professional athletes with different wants and needs and their livelihoods depend on quantitative success.

* Inverted with Ms. Applegate from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}''; she actually does teach kindergarten but she's also a [[SadistTeacher sadistic]] ChildHater who constantly [[WouldHurtAChild endangers the lives of her students]]. She shouldn't be teaching at ''any'' grade level, let alone kindergarten.

Compare HippieTeacher, with whom this sometimes overlaps. CoolTeacher can be even better. Contrast SadistTeacher, with which this can overlap, and SternTeacher. See also ProfessionalVoiceDissonance if the teacher's "kingdergarten voice" sounds different from their actual speaking voice.

Compare HippieTeacher, with whom this sometimes overlaps. CoolTeacher can be even better. Contrast SternTeacher and SadistTeacher. See also ProfessionalVoiceDissonance if the teacher's "kingdergarten voice" sounds different from their actual speaking voice.

-->"Well, it is lovely to be back at Hogwarts, I must say! And to see such happy little faces looking back at me!"\\\

* ''Literature/LittleHouseOnthePrairie'':

* In ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'', Ms. Bustier is such a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter that she accepts Chloé's claims that she misses Marinette and just can't focus without her at face value, attempting to badger Marinette into transferring back... or agree to "mentor" her long-term bully.
* ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'' deconstructs this trope by showing exactly what sort of effect this has on the teacher's students. Bustier has been teaching some of the kids in her care since they were six, and a lot of the philosophies she teaches (largely revolving around love and forgiveness) are more suited for children that age than teenagers. Unfortunately, these philosophies also mean she keeps enabling [[SpoiledBrat Chloé]] by not punishing her for her bullying, fueling the girl's sense of entitlement; meanwhile, the rest of her class has long wised up to the fact that she isn't a great authority figure, but her reputation as a nice teacher means they're worried ''they'll'' be seen as the bad guys if they complain about it.

* The title character of the one-act play ''Miss Bleep''[[note]]or maybe ''Mis Bleep[[/note]] has a very good excuse for this -- she's a robot, and she treats everyone as a student as part of her programming. She's also malfunctioning quite badly -- for instance, she won't let her "students" leave at the end of the day, giving them a paralyzing shock every time they attempt to escape. They've apparently been surviving on milk and cookies for a ''long'' time.

Compare HippieTeacher, with whom this sometimes overlaps. CoolTeacher can be even better. Contrast SternTeacher and SadistTeacher.

* Landlady Miriam Fry from ''Series/AgentCarter'' treats her tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own, the way she strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Strings}}'', as Tarrlok is over-qualified to be an elementary school teacher and trying to teach his students the advanced stuff, which goes over their heads.

* ''Literature/MrMajeika'': The series features one book in which a children's author named Penelope Primrose appears (author of cutesy books about a rabbit called Little Bluebell). She refers to the ten-year-old protagonists as "little tots", speaks in baby talk and insists she doesn't take any "grown-up drinks" like tea. She's scared off when she sniffs a bouquet of flowers with stinging nettles hidden in them.

* The ''Mr. Majeika'' series features one book in which a children's author named Penelope Primrose appears (author of cutesy books about a rabbit called Little Bluebell). She refers to the ten-year-old protagonists as "little tots", speaks in baby talk and insists she doesn't take any "grown-up drinks" like tea. She's scared off when she sniffs a bouquet of flowers with stinging nettles hidden in them.

* Usami/Monomi of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' claims to be the class teacher, and is an excessively cute, "squeezably-soft" MagicalGirl stuffed animal. The class in question consists of high school students who are 17 at the youngest. None of them are impressed with her, and she's treated as a ButtMonkey throughout the entire game.

* Wrestling/MichelleMcCool briefly had a teacher gimmick that bafflingly combined this with a sexy teacher who made cutesy innuendos. Unsurprisingly, it's a major OldShame for her (she actually ''was'' a teacher prior to wrestling and was terrified of her former co-workers seeing it).

-->-- '''[[SadistTeacher Dolores Umbridge]]''' (to a crowd of teens and pre-teens, aged 11 to 18), ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''.

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