History PlayingWith / MisplacedKindergartenTeacher

** Sergeant Smith [[DrillSergeantNasty put her recruits through rigorous exercises and drills]], but [[SugaryMalice maintains a cheeful upbeat demeanor]] and [[ObliviouslyEvil seems to think they enjoy such treatment.]]

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** MisplacedCollegeProfessor

* '''Downplayed''': Ms. Smith teaches her third grade class that blue + yellow = green.

* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny.

* '''Straight''': [[CloudCuckoolander Ms. Smith]] teaches her 14-year olds that blue + yellow = green.

* '''Downplayed''': Ms. Smith teaches her 8-year olds that blue + yellow = green.

** Ms. Smith teaches her 14-year olds quantum physics.

** Ms. Smith teaches one of her 14-year olds that blue + yellow = green. It turns out that this 14-year-old isn't particularly bright, and didn't know what you have to mix to get green paint.

* '''Parodied''': Ms. Smith teaches her 14-year-olds that blue + white = green.

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** Ms. Smith is GettingCrapPastTheRadar, with very adult topics (alcohol, sex) disguised in her childish-seeming lessons.

* '''Inverted''': Ms. Smith teaches her 14-year olds quantum physics.

* '''Parodied''': She also teaches her students that 2+2=4, schedules ''nap'' time for them, and even starts treating them as if they were her own ''children!''

--> "Now, when the Big Bad Multiplication Wolf came to the Bracket House and found the Three Little Terms all hiding inside, he huffed, and he puffed, and he multiplied them all individually!"

** Ms. Smith is a new teacher at a staunch AssimilationAcademy, and her teaching style is her way of defying authority. (YMMV as to whether she's going about it the right way.)

** The school relies on standardized testing to get funding and so forth, and apparently "blue + yellow = green" is something important to the test. In other words, Ms. Smith is TheDumbledore; she doesn't appear to know what she's doing, but in fact she does.

* '''Parodied''': ???

** Sergeant Smith [[DrillSergeantNasty put her recruits through rigorous exercises and drills]], but maintains a cheeful upbeat demeanor and seems to think they enjoy such treatment.

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Dr. Smith teaches her college or grad students that blue + yellow = green.

** The class is a remedial class that needs to go at a much slower pace than the other classes.
** Ms. Smith is an art teacher, and this bit of revision is an introduction to something a little more advanced, such as how to change the shade of the green paint.
** The school relies on standardized testing to get funding and so forth, and apparently "blue + yellow = green" is something important to the test. In other words, Ms. Smith is TheDumbledore; she doesn't appear to know what she's doing, but in fact she does.

* '''Parodied''': Every class at Trope State University is like this!

* '''Averted''':
** Ms. Smith teaches at an appropriate level.
** Ms. Smith challenges her students by giving more advanced lessons.

* '''Exploited''': Mr. Grumpy takes stress leave, and arranges for Ms. Smith to take his classes for a while so his students will want him back.
* '''Defied''': Ms. Smith takes the job at the high school, but she soon adapts to teach high schoolers appropriately.
* '''Discussed''': "I think Ms. Smith would be happier teaching kindergarten."
* '''Conversed''': "Certainly her students would."
* '''Deconstructed''': Talking down to students makes them lose interest; it's something they already know, and their intelligence is being insulted. If they lose interest, they won't learn anything. If standardized tests are important, the students won't know how to answer the questions, and the school could lose funding, or the students won't get into the high school or college they want.
* '''Reconstructed''':

** Alternatively, Ms. Smith decides that if she can't do that, she's going to take a new job teaching kindergarten, preschool, or first grade. The students then learn something appropriate to their level, and she gets to teach ''her'' way.

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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A teacher who speaks and teaches in a manner geared towards kindergarteners or first-graders, but actually teaches at a much higher grade level.
* '''Straight''': [[CloudCuckoolander Ms. Smith]] teaches her 3rd-grade class that blue + yellow = green.

* '''Downplayed''': Ms. Smith teaches her 1st-grade class that blue + yellow = green.

** Ms. Smith is an art teacher, and this bit of review is a segway into something a little more advanced, such as how to change the shade of the green paint.
** The school relies on standardized testing to get funding and so forth, and apparently "blue+yuellow=green" is something important to the test. In other words, Ms. Smith is TheDumbledore; she doesn't appear to know what she's doing, but in fact she does.

* '''Inverted''': Ms. Smith teaches her 3rd-grade class quantum physics.
* '''Subverted''': Ms. Smith teaches her 3rd-grade class something appropriate to that grade level.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she sings a song, does a puppet show, etc. to do so.

* '''Averted''':

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Ms. Smith takes the job at the high school, but she adapts to teach high schoolers appropriately.

* '''Played Straight''': [[CloudCuckoolander Ms. Smith]] teaches her 3rd-grade class that blue + yellow = green.

* '''Inverted''': Ms. Smith teaches her 3rd-grade class quantum physics.
* '''Justified''': The class is a remedial class that needs to go at a much slower pace than the other classes.

** The school relies on standardized testing to get funding and so forth, and apparently "blue+yuellow=green" is something important to the test. In other words, Ms. Smith is TheDumbledore; she doesn't appear to know what she's doing, but in fact she does.

* '''Deconstructed''': Talking down to students makes them lose interest; it's something they already know, and their intelligence is being insulted. If they lose interest, they won't learn anything. If standardized tests are important, the students won't know how to answer the questions, and the school could lose funding, or the students won't get into the high school or college they want.
* '''Reconstructed''': Ms. Smith notices her students losing interest, and reevaluates her teaching style, so that she's teaching lessons appropriate to the grade level of her students.
** Alternatively, Ms. Smith decides that if she can't do that, she's going to take a new job teaching kindergarten, preschool, or first grade. The students then learn something appropriate to their level, and she gets to teach ''her'' way.
* '''Parodied''': Every class at Trope State University is like this!
* '''Lampshaded''': "Maybe I should teach kindergarten next year."
* '''Averted''': Ms. Smith teaches at an appropriate level.

* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny
* '''Invoked''': Ms. Smith, a kindergarten teacher, got laid off. She is desperate for work, and a nearby high school needs a teacher. Since she only knows how to teach kindergarten, well...old habits die hard.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.

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* '''Basic Trope''': A teacher who speaks and teaches in a manner geared towards kindergarteners or first-graders, but actually teaches at a much higher grade level.