History Main / PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo'': Trent Ikithon is a pro-Empire teacher at the Soltryce Academy who [[spoiler: hand-picked Caleb/Bren, along with Astrid and Ulrich, to be "trained" (aka brainwashed) to become agents of the Cerberus Assembly.]]

'''Ginger:''' If all sides includes [[UsefulNotes/{{Evolution}} Creationism]] and [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories Holocaust denial]] and the novels of Creator/AynRand, then, yeah, I guess it does.\\

There is always that one teacher, the one who is always bringing his or her politics into the classroom and is extremely passionate about it. Be it about religion, the government, or ethics, morality, and values, this teacher is always ready with their own arguments and/or [[AuthorFilibuster long-winded speeches.]] Typically, this person teaches a class involving social sciences (e.g.: history, sociology, politics), but it can be any teacher in any subject. College professors are [[StrawmanU even more likely to be politically motivated]].

* Mr. Birkenbake of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' is a literal HippieTeacher that tries to get his students to "fight The Man" and calls Mr. Crocker -- another teacher -- a puppet of the military-industrial complex.

** [=PC=] Principal, debuting in season 19 in the wake of a wave of political correctness sweeping the country, is an exaggerated caricature of this trope, aggressively pushing his social justice agenda on both staff and students, violently ''assaulting'' Cartman in the boys bathroom for saying "capiche", hypersensitive to the possibility that his motives are anything less than pure and sincere, and symbolising the arrival of Left-Liberal political correctness in the town forevermore. Naturally, one of his first acts is to fire Garrison for being a racist.

** [=PC=] Principal, debuting in season 19 in the wake of a wave of political correctness sweeping the country, is an exaggerated caricature of this trope, aggressively pushing his social justice agenda on both staff and students, violently ''assaulting'' Cartman in the boys bathroom for saying "spokesMAN" instead of "spokesPERSON", hypersensitive to the possibility that his motives are anything less than pure and sincere, and symbolising the arrival of Left-Liberal political correctness in the town forevermore. Naturally, one of his first acts is to fire Garrison for being a racist.

** [=PC=] Principal, debuting in season 19 in the wake of a wave of political correctness sweeping the country, is an exaggerated caricature of this trope, aggressively pushing his social justice agenda on both staff and students, violently ''assaulting'' Cartman in the boys bathroom for using a slur, hypersensitive to the possibility that his motives are anything less than pure and sincere, and symbolising the arrival of Left-Liberal political correctness in the town forevermore. Naturally, one of his first acts is to fire Garrison for being a racist.

** [=PC=] Principal, debuting in season 19 in the wake of a wave of political correctness sweeping the country, is an exaggerated caricature of this trope, aggressively pushing his social justice agenda on both staff and students, violently ''assaulting'' Cartman in the boys bathroom for using a slur, hypersensitive to the possibility that his motives are anything less than pure and sincere, and symbolising the arrival of Left-Liberal political correctness in the town forevermore.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s Mr. ([[{{Transgender}} or Mrs.]]) Garrison has been known to do this on occasion, though less blatantly, as it's often left to offhand comments (such as in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' when he declared the [[MoralGuardians Mothers Against Canada]] were "probably just all on their periods"). In "Follow That Egg!," however, (s)he manipulates the lesson in a ploy to keep gay marriage illegal (though his/her motivation is more personal than political). (S)he does the same thing when it comes to teaching evolution (first being vehemently opposed to it as a creationist, then switching to being vehemently anti-religion). (S)he explains that her/his only consistent belief is that you have to be an asshole to anyone who disagrees with you.

* One episode of ''Series/BronxZoo'' had a science teacher become a born-again Christian after surviving an accident where a cross-shaped beam narrowly missed falling on him. He become convinced the Bible was the literal word of God and started teaching creationism rather than evolution in his class.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Miss Grotke is [[HippieTeacher anti-racist, feminist, and environmentalist]]. She's also strangely rigorous about it, teaching the students things like Critical Theory and assigning readings from ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''. Keep in mind that this is a third grade class.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Chick Tract|s}} [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp "Big Daddy?"]] has a teacher kick a student out of his class for citing Literature/TheBible for his disbelief in evolution, only letting him back in to [[ObviouslyEvil "tear [his] little beliefs to shreds in front of the entire class"]]. The student counters and eventually breaks him. This is Chick's perception of ''all'' teachers who teach biology, since he thinks that evolution by natural selection is a political/religious ideology rather than a scientific theory.

* ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' plays with something seen under real life in this exchange from 2005 between Neoconservative student Cynthia and Ginger:

* A mild example appears in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.

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--> ''Mathias Hammer, known for asking oddball questions, asked her if we
gave the other races time, wouldn't they eventually move up the
evolutionary scale on their own like we had? I was afraid Mathias was
going to be scolded, but Fräulein Rahm said his question was essential.
After sketching a mountain on the chalkboard she asked, 'If it takes one race
this much time to evolve from here to there, and another race three times as
long, which race is superior?''

-->''We all agreed it was the first.
''

-->''By the time the inferior races catch up to where we are today, the peak,
we won't be there any more, we'll be way up here.' She drew too quickly without looking. The peak she added was too high and steep to be stable.''