Basic Trope: A strict/no-nonsense teacher
- Straight: Mr. Stern maintains strict standards for his students and lets no delinquency go under the radar.
- Exaggerated: Mr. Stern runs a military-like classroom with absurdly high standards.
- Downplayed: Mr. Stern punishes delinquency.
- Justified:
- Mr. Stern is a believer that Tough Love is best for managing his classroom, and he’s actually right.
- Mr. Stern is teaching a dangerous subject, and his strict attitude is what keeps his students from getting seriously injured or killed.
- Mr. Stern is teaching at a Dustbin School and his students are all juvenile delinquents.
- Inverted: Mr. Stern is laid back and generally lets his students get away with whatever they want.
- Subverted:
- It looks like Mr. Stern has tight control over his class, but his students just happen to listen to what he says.
- Mr Stern seems like a strict but loving teacher, but behind closed doors he's actually needlessly cruel.
- Double Subverted:
- They listen to what he says because of his strict methods.
- Mr. Stern has some questionable methods, but they're completely necessary for the dangerous subjects he teaches.
- Parodied: Mr. Stern punishes students for seemingly no reason, which causes them to suddenly become better at completely unrelated tasks.
- Zig Zagged: Mr. Stern is a Sink or Swim Mentor who is also a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who wants students to work very hard, but is also extremely happy whenever they actually succeed.
- Averted:
- The teacher (if there is one) is not described much.
- Mr. Stern is not particularly strict, but not that lenient either.
- Enforced: The author is making a biography, and his teacher/editor wants to make sure he’s represented correctly.
- Lampshaded: "That Mr. Stern sure does have everyone under his thumb."
- Exploited: Alice is tired of getting F's, so she asks to be put in a classroom with a teacher who will really push her.
- Defied: A principal specifically prevents his teachers from acting like this.
- Invoked: A teacher, after some time in his job, tries to be tougher when it comes to managing his classroom.
- Discussed: "I hope I don't end up with a really strict teacher this year."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: The students don’t like their teacher, and flat-out refuse to listen to them.
- Reconstructed: Mr. Stern keeps in mind student opinion of him, and tries to follow a middle path that works.
- Implied: A troublemaking student gets much more serious when entering Mr. Stern's classroom. At the same time, he doesn't seem to resent this.
- Played For Laughs:
- Mr. Stern is a Comically Serious yet evenhanded authority figure who deals with over-the-top shenanigans in his classroom with a constant stoic attitude.
- Mr. Stern wants to hate the local Jerk Jock Flash Young, but for some inexplicable reason, Flash is constantly getting fair-and-square A+'s, driving Mr. Stern crazy to no end as Flash continues to be a complete dickhead to everyone.
Go back to Stern Teacher, for there will be no nonsense in my classroom.
