ThunderPhoenix: If the "Truth in Television" line wasn't there, I would have added "If any ACTUAL teacher behaved in the ways these fictional instuctors do, the Board of Education would have them sacked within a matter of weeks". Guess some people have had different experiences with the world of education than I have.

{{Lale}}: Oh, yeah. I remember during an episode of [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] when Huang explains, "Victims of bullying are often social outcasts. School officials typically identify with 'the normal kids,' and the victims are seen as being overly sensitive," I thought, ''My middle school experience in a nutshell.''

NautilusPQ: Should this be a Webcomic trope? It seems overly general.
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LooneyToons: Just in case it isn't terribly obvious, I moved the entire "Real Life" section to TroperTales/SadistTeacher in TroperTales.
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{{phantomreader42}}:Would John Freshwater fall into this? He's a teacher in Ohio currently in the midst of termination hearings. The part of the problem his defenders like to play up is that he was using his public school class time to promote his religion (IE illegally teaching creationism and lying about science), and they're just pretending it's part of a vast {{Darwinist}} conspiracy to [[DrStrangelove sap and impurify his precious bodily fluids]]. What they try to sweep under the rug is that he '''[[RapeTheDog burned crosses into student's arms!]]'''. The motive may not be sadism per se, but he is obviously a dangerous religious nut who causes harm to the children in his care.
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SomeGuy: Somebody added a random snipe against teachers' unions. Guys, take your political complaints elsewhere. Don't drag the teachers' union into this. [[WeirdTradeUnion Especially since we don't know who they're in solidarity with right now]].
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CopperAlloy: SadistTeacher is the ''answer'' to DrillSergeantNasty? I think not! A DrillSergeantNasty is to prepare a soldier for military service, a necessary evil perhaps. A SadistTeacher destroys educations and ruins lives, and all of them should be, or should have been, strung up. We've got to find a better way to phrase this, or remove the sentence entirely. SternTeacher is more along the lines of the DrillSergeantNasty.