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* '''Reconstructed''': The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.

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The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.
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** The faculty is permitted (but not obligated) to provide amenities for the lounge that would otherwise be unaffordable.
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* '''Exploited''': ???The superintendent buys the teachers all sorts of great stuff for the teachers' lounge (HD televisions, game consoles, hottubs, top-shelf liquors, etc.) [[BreadAndCircuses to distract them]] from the fact that the school is falling apart, the books are woefully out of date, and their actual paychecks are beyond pitiful.
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???Not to put too fine a point on it, but the teachers' lounge is a shithole. The coffee [[ItTastesLikeFeet tastes like cat piss]], the lights flicker, and it's furnished with chairs and tables that were too broken to use in classrooms.



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* '''Parodied''': ???A CherubicChoir and [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles pretty sparkles]] herald the opening of the door to the sacred teachers' lounge!

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* '''Basic Trope''': The teachers' lounge is a wonderful place for teachers to escape to.
* '''Played Straight''': The teachers' lounge has soothing music, soft couches, hottubs, etc.

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* '''Basic Trope''': The teachers' lounge is a wonderful place for teachers to escape to.
* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': The teachers' lounge has soothing music, soft couches, hottubs, etc.



* '''Inverted''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': The school likely doesn't have the funding to pay for all these amenities. And even if it did, wouldn't it be better to pay the teachers a higher wage instead of just giving them BreadAndCircuses?
* '''Reconstructed''': The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The school likely doesn't have the funding to pay for all these amenities. And even if it did, wouldn't it be better to pay the teachers a higher wage instead of just giving them BreadAndCircuses?
* '''Reconstructed''': The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': There is no teachers' lounge.
* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny



* '''Averted''': See "subverted"
** There is no teachers' lounge.
* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.
* '''Played For Drama''': The school is suffering, but the teachers are too busy enjoying the spa to care...except for the OnlySaneMan.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.
'''Deconstructed''': The school likely doesn't have the funding to pay for all these amenities. And even if it did, wouldn't it be better to pay the teachers a higher wage instead of just giving them BreadAndCircuses?
* '''Reconstructed''': The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.
* '''Played For Drama''': The school is suffering, but the teachers are too busy enjoying the spa to care...except for the OnlySaneMan.
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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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*'''Basic Trope''': The teachers' lounge is a wonderful place for teachers to escape to.
*'''Played Straight''': The teachers' lounge has soothing music, soft couches, hottubs, etc.
*'''Exaggerated''': The teachers' lounge is a place of CrystalSpiresAndTogas.
*'''Downplayed''': The teachers' lounge isn't anything fancy, but it is designed to be a soothing place.
*'''Justified''': Teaching is a stressful job; they need a place to regain composure.
*'''Subverted''': The students expect the lounge to be a magical place, but it's an ordinary room with sofas, a little kitchenette area, and vending machines.
*'''Double Subverted''': But once the student leaves, a teacher presses some buttons on the vending machine, and a wall turns around to reveal a spa, a party room, a bar, or some other such great place.
*'''Deconstructed''': The school likely doesn't have the funding to pay for all these amenities. And even if it did, wouldn't it be better to pay the teachers a higher wage instead of just giving them BreadAndCircuses?
*'''Reconstructed''': The school manages its budget so that it has the resources to provide teachers with a decent living wage, as well as a place of refuge from the stress of the workday...without compromising the quality of the students' education.
*'''Parodied''':
*'''Lampshaded''': "Off to the magical teachers' lounge! Wait, DidIJustSayThatOutLoud?"
*'''Averted''': See "subverted"
** There is no teachers' lounge.
*'''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny
*'''Invoked''': One of the teachers proposes getting a hottub for teachers to use when the school gets some additional funding.
*'''Defied''': The hottub proposal is rejected, and the money is allocated towards providing more up-to-date books and learning materials for the students.
*'''Discussed''': "I wonder what ''really'' goes on in the teachers' lounge?"
*'''Conversed''': "Where do they get the money for that teachers' lounge, anyway?"
*'''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.
*'''Played For Drama''': The school is suffering, but the teachers are too busy enjoying the spa to care...except for the OnlySaneMan.

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