History Main / TeachersOutOfSchool

** The episode "Weekend at Muriel's" starts with Spinelli discovering not only that [[SadistTeacher Miss Finster]] goes out shopping like a normal person, but that she's actually an old family friend of her mom's side of the family. Gus is particularly surprised to hear this, since he assumed that teachers just sat quietly at their desks whenever school wasn't in session. Then Spinelli ends up spending the weekend at Miss Finster's apartment while her parents go out of town.
** Another episode is about the main six discovering that their main teacher, Miss Grotke, has a secret double life [[spoiler: as a stage magician]].

* ''Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live In Room 10'' has a student discover his teacher not only doesn't live in Room 10, but also lives in the same apartment complex as him.

* ''Remembering Mrs. Rossi'' is a novel about a grade-school teacher, Mrs. Rossi, who dies while seemingly still in the prime of her teaching career. In the novel, the students in her class write a book called "Remembering Mrs. Rossi," each with their own personal reminisces of her, and give the book to her young daughter. At the end of the novel is the book itself, which features a couple instances of this. One of them is a poem by a boy named Peter which includes the lines "Hey, Mrs. Rossi! I saw you / That time at the market / Yikes! Teacher in the market! / Hide! Duck! Spy! / Spy on Mrs. Rossi." Another is a story called "Neighbors" from a boy named Drew in which he reveals his secret - that Mrs. Rossi lives in the same apartment building as him. He never even knew that she was a teacher until he became a student in her class. He was worried that the kids in his class would find out and call him a teacher's pet, but they never did find out, and she never told. And, of course, the teacher's daughter, Anna, is a living example of the fact that teachers have lives outside of school and would have never grown up with this type of thinking.
* In Andrew Clements's ''The Landry News'', the teacher Karl Larson recalls a teacher he had when he was a kid, a seemingly perfect woman named Mrs. Spellman with perfect hair, flawless cursive, and gold stars that were valued by even the toughest boys. Then, while out on holiday on Memorial Day, he saw on her the beach with her family, wearing a swimsuit that didn't hide any of her midriff bulges or purple veins and her husband pointing at a cooler and asking her "Hey, Mabel, hand me a cold one, would you?" Shocked, he in an instant realized that the Mrs. Spellman he knew at school was mostly a fictional character, created both by her and in his mind.

* In the ''Robin Hill School'' book ''Summer Treasure'', the girl Hannah goes to the beach with her mother. She goes off searching for treasure and is shocked to find her teacher, Mrs. Connor, wearing a swimsuit and sunglasses and with her hair not in its usual ponytail. She is even more shocked to learn that Mrs. Connor has a husband and shouts at Mrs. Connor that she should be at school, only for Mrs. Connor to tell her that she's not at school all the time. She admits that she thought teachers lived at school all the time, having dinner together, watching a little TV and then putting on pajamas and sleeping together in bunk beds. Mrs. Connor disabuses her of this notion, then the two play together on the beach for a while.

* In ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' episode "Mrs. Westlake", Dr. Huxtable invites Theo's math teacher, Mrs. Westlake, and her husband over for dinner--Theo expects the worst, especially because Mrs. Westlake is widely considered to be the toughest math teacher at his high school (to the point of being called "The Dragon Lady"). However, during the dinner, Theo's surprised to see that outside of her life as a teacher, Mrs. Westlake is actually pretty friendly and reveals that Theo actually did pretty well on his math test (he got an 89%, which would be a B+).

* ''ComicStrip/GrandAvenue'': In the [[http://assets.amuniversal.com/f5efe470fc7201301829001dd8b71c47 strip for September 17, 2013]], Gabbie expresses disbelief that her teacher had such a busy summer vacation. The teacher angrily asks her if she thinks that all teachers do is teach, that they live at school, and all they do in their spare time is grade papers.

* In the ''Wandering Son'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14142669 Reunion]]'', one of Kanako's 4-year-old students questions her about what she does after class. She thinks that Kanako sleeps at the school.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In one strip, Calvin's mom mentions seeing his teacher, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ms. Wormwood]], at the supermarket. Calvin, surprised to hear this, remarks that he just kind of assumed that teachers [[VampiresSleepInCoffins slept in coffins]] all summer.
* In an early ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strip, Jeremy and Hector see a female teacher of theirs coming out of a lingerie store. They immediately race off to post about it on the Internet.

** The episode "Weekend at Muriel's" starts with Spinelli discovering not only that [[SadistTeacher Miss Finster]] goes out shopping like a normal person, but that she's a friend of her parents. Gus is particularly surprised to hear this, since he assumed that teachers just sat quietly at their desks whenever school wasn't in session. Then Spinelli ends up spending the weekend at Miss Finster's apartment while her parents go out of town.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' had the teachers go on strike. Because of the strike, the kids rejoiced that they could spend their days out of school, but found that the teachers all had found temporary jobs at all the places they liked to hang out. The kids return to school to avoid the teachers, but are evicted by Principal Wartz, who tells them that the longer strike goes on, the more days they take out of summer vacation. That's when Arnold vows to end the strike as soon as possible.

* In "School Starts Tomorrow (Operetta)" from ''WesternAnimation/PeteTheCat'', Grumpy believes his eyes are playing tricks on him when the kids all go to the Mega Mart to shop for back to school and he spots a teacher out shopping.

-->'''Teacher''': Yep, it's me! Out in the world! ''Cause I shop like you / Get my hair cut too / I'm buying food 'cause I eat just like you / I'm just a teacher out of school!''

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In one strip, Calvin's mom mentions seeing his teacher, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ms. Wormwood]], at the supermarket. Calvin, surprised to hear this, remarks that he just kind of assumed that teachers slept in coffins all summer.

At the end of the day, kids go home. Do teachers go home? Of course not! Teachers are teachers. School ''is'' their home! After all, they're already at school when the students arrive and are still there after the students leave, so they obviously must never leave the building themselves. At the end of the day, teachers just [[{{Robot}} get switched off and locked in a storage closet]]. Or they spend their summers [[OurVampiresAreDifferent sleeping in their vampire coffins]] until vacation is over, where they will rise up to [[VampiricDraining suck the life out of their students]] the next year.

* A variant happes in ''Manga/BloomIntoYou''. Yuu, Touko and Sayaka are holding a meeting with Koyomi at a local cafe when Riko, who's Yuu and Koyomi's homeroom teacher and assistant advisor for the student council, walks in. Riko is less than happy to see her students at the cafe, [[spoiler:since she's in a relationship with the female proprietor, and she's worried that the students will find out.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' features a robot for a teacher named Mrs. Bolt. Her class thinks of her as just a machine that makes their lives miserable, until one episode where her husband chooses to invite her class over for a party. Lloyd is surprised that Mrs. Bolt has a life outside teaching -- and a husband (despite the fact she goes by "Mrs.").