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* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'': The self-help book ''Yikes! A Smart Girl's Guide To Surviving Tricky, Sticky, Icky Situations'' has a passage on what to do if you think your teacher hates you. The illustration shows a girl offering a green apple to her cranky teacher (who is apparently unhappy because she wanted a red apple), with a poster of the girl's face in the background that says "The BAD CHILD: This could be you!" and a blackboard with only one name listed under "Bad Students".

* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In ''[[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules Rodrick Rules]]'', at least two of Greg's new teachers dislike him on principle because they had his big brother Rodrick (a BookDumb slacker and delinquent) in their classes a few years ago. His history teacher Mr. Huff glares at him and makes him sit in a chair right next to the teacher's desk, and his pre-algebra teacher Ms. Lee watches him like a hawk.

* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'': In the ''Sweet Valley Twins'' book ''Best Friends'', Jessica and Elizabeth decide to join a ballet class. When Jessica shows up for the first one wearing tons of flashy accessories like barrettes and makeup, she promptly gets chewed out by the furious teacher, Madame André, for not wearing proper ballet attire like her sister. In every class after that, Madame André praises Elizabeth, but the only thing she ever tells Jessica is "Keep your back straight."

* [[FandomSpecificPlot/MyHeroAcademia In various]] ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fan fictions, Izuku Midoriya becomes this to Shouta "Eraserhead" Aizawa, for a number of factors including the kid being [[{{Determinator}} irritatingly determined to succeed]], a borderline MartyrWithoutACause, [[FantasticRacism Quirkless]], with [[LethalUpgrade a self-destructive lack of control over his Quirk]], and others.

** In '' Fanfic/MeanRabbit'', Aizawa is outright [[SadistTeacher sadistic]] to Izuku, hoping that Izuku will either quit UA (because Quirkless weaklings have no place) [[Catch22Dilemma or make it through the class (and he can then say that it was him driving Izuku to succeed that did so).]]

* The student is [[HeroWithBadPublicity mistaken for a bad seed]] courtesy of the [[BullyBrutality other students]]' InsidiousRumorMill, the teacher's PsychologicalProjection[[note]]which will lead to a greater MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when they finally compute [[NotSoDifferentRemark how much they are mounding the kid into being a clone of them]] while [[NiceJobBreakingItHero trying to prevent that]][[/note]] and/or [[NotWhatItLooksLike various misunderstandings]] and the teacher [[SelectiveEnforcement decides to enforce zero tolerance on the wrong target]].

* The student is [[HeroWithBadPublicity mistaken for a bad seed]] courtesy of the [[BullyBrutality other students]]' InsidiousRumorMill and [[NotWhatItLooksLike various misunderstandings]] and the teacher [[SelectiveEnforcement decides to enforce zero tolerance on the wrong target]].

* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'': In ''Sweet Valley Twins'', Jessica and Elizabeth decide to join a ballet class. When Jessica shows up for the first one wearing tons of flashy accessories, she promptly gets chewed out by the furious teacher and compared unfavorably to Elizabeth, who is wearing proper ballet attire. In every class after that, the teacher praises Elizabeth, but the only thing she ever tells Jessica is "Keep your back straight."

* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'': In ''Sweet Valley Twins'', Jessica and Elizabeth decide to join a ballet class. Jessica shows up for the first one wearing tons of flashy accessories; she promptly gets chewed out by the furious teacher for not wearing proper ballet attire and compared unfavorably to Elizabeth. In every class after that, the teacher praises Elizabeth, but the only thing she ever tells Jessica is "Keep your back straight."

** It's {{Subverted|Trope}} and PlayedWith in regards to Sakura, whom he immediately decides is his favorite student due to her anaylytical skills, with his praise only growing as he observes her work ethic and overall skillset. In fact, Shikaku explicitly ordered Sakura to manipulate her grades in school in order to end up on his team, precisely ''because'' he knew this would happen, thus securing the safety of his son's talented civilian friend should she end up getting too much attention from the wrong people. However, Kakashi is not a very good teacher, relying heavily upon TricksterMentor and {{sink or swim|Mentor}} tactics, along with expecting her to act as TheHeart of Team Seven much like Rin had and pull them together despite how Sasuke and Uo scorn and belittle her for [[IWasBeatenByAGirl being a girl]]. This means Sakura doesn't trust Kakashi, believing that he'd sell her out in a heartbeat,

* ''Fanfic/ThreesACrowdNaruto'': Subverted. Kakashi immediately labels Sakura as his favorite from day one thanks to her analytical skills, with his praise only growing as he observes her work ethic and overall skillset. In fact, Shikaku explicitly ordered Sakura to manipulate her grades in school in order to end up on his team, precisely ''because'' he knew this would happen, thus securing the safety of his son's talented civilian friend should she end up getting too much attention from the wrong people. Ironically, Sakura isn't at all fond of Kakashi as a teacher, regularly chewing him out for his subpar teaching methods and only tolerating him because he was one of the few people who was nice to Naruto.

* ''Fanfic/ThreesACrowdNaruto'': Subverted. Kakashi immediately labels Sakura as his favorite from day one thanks to her analytical skills, with his praise only growing as he observes her work ethic and overall skillset. In fact, Shikaku explicitly ordered Sakura to manipulate her grades in school in order to end up on his team, precisely ''because'' he knew this would happen, thus securing the safety of his son's talented civilian friend from Danzo and his agents. Ironically, Sakura isn't at all fond of Kakashi as a teacher, regularly chewing him out for his subpar teaching methods and only tolerating him because he was one of the few people who was nice to Naruto.

* ''Fanfic/ThreesACrowdNaruto'': Subverted. Kakashi immediately labels Sakura as his favorite from day one thanks to her analytical skills, with his praise only growing as he observes her work ethic and overall skillset. In fact, Shikaku explicitly ordered Sakura to manipulate her grades in school in order to end up on his team, precisely ''because'' he knew this would happen, thus securing the safety of one of his son's friends from Danzo and his agents. Ironically, Sakura isn't at all fond of him as a teacher, regularly chewing him out for his subpar teaching methods.

* ''Fanfic/ThreesACrowd'': Subverted. Kakashi immediately labels Sakura as his favorite from day one thanks to her analytical skills, with his praise only growing as he observes her work ethic and overall skillset. In fact, Shikaku explicitly ordered Sakura to manipulate her grades in school in order to end up on his team, precisely ''because'' he knew this would happen, thus securing the safety of one of his son's friends from Danzo and his agents. Ironically, Sakura isn't at all fond of him as a teacher, regularly chewing him out for his subpar teaching methods.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Miss Fowl has a particular dislike towards Sheen Estevez. This is because Sheen is obsessed with [[ShowWithinAShow Ultra Lord]] to the point of [[ShowAndTellAntics showing his action figure of him for show and tell seven weeks in a row]], and because he is extremely BookDumb, to the point where he scored a [[FMinusMinus F----]] on a test (one of his answers was that Ultra Lord was the father of our country, which was on the official Ultra Lord website). She is also not above insulting Sheen's [[HollywoodToneDeaf terrible singing voice]], to the point where after she gives Sheen a solo in the school choir to thank him for saving the town from the Twonkies (since they like terrible music but hate good music), she locks him in a sound-proof booth. In ''Journey to the Center of Carl'', when all of her students are too sick to go to school thanks to Jimmy's sick patches, she admits that she misses all of her students, except for Sheen.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': Ms. Grundy occasionally implies that she dislikes Archie more than her other students due to the shenanigans he gets into. In one comic, he says it would be great if students could pick their teachers, and she responds that it would be even better if teachers could choose their students.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Ser Alliser Thorne is in charge of training the new recruits of the Night's Watch for battle, and takes particular enjoyment in picking on Samwell Tarly, a nonathletic, soft-hearted, fat boy.