Playing With / Cool Teacher

• Basic Trope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Straight: Mr. Lawrence of Troperville High School is a very fun and friendly teacher who is always there to help his students.
• Exaggerated: Mr. Lawrence allows his students to get away with pretty much everything.
• Downplayed:
  • Mr. Lawrence is a fun and friendly teacher...but he's still a teacher, and expects you to learn in his classroom. He's also not afraid to punish disruptive/rowdy students, and can still be quite nasty at times.
  • Mr. Lawrence is a cool substitute teacher.
  • Mr. Lawrence is a Stern Teacher, but he's friendly when he's not being "stern".
• Justified:
  • Mr. Lawrence believes that if students enjoy learning, they will do better. The fact that his classes have the highest average grades in the school also helps.
  • Joshua Lawrence "call me Josh", at age 24, understands his students at the social level.
• Inverted:
  • Mr. Lawrence is a Sadist Teacher.
  • Mr. Lawrence is only there for the paycheck.
• Subverted:
  • Mr. Lawrence seems like a great guy...until he goes on a nasty tirade against a lazy, failing student in his class.
  • Mr. Lawrence is a great teacher, as long as you're a great student. If you're not, he's a lot more strict.
• Double Subverted: He just wants the student to succeed and didn't mean to lose his temper. He privately apologizes to the student when he has a chance to do so, admitting that he was frazzled and that his tirade was unprofessional.
• Zig-Zagged: Mr. Lawrence is friendly and helpful when having a good day. When he's not, heads roll.
• Averted: Mr. Lawrence is a very average teacher.
• Enforced:
  • The writer had a Cool Teacher when they were in school, and wants to demonstrate his opinion that this type of teacher is the best one.
  • "We need to have a teacher who children can relate to!"
• Lampshaded: "Mr. Lawrence is pretty much the only reason I even go to school."
• Invoked: See Justified.
• Defied: Mr. Lawrence's incredibly nice demeanor doesn't work on all students, so he starts to become more of a Stern Teacher to combat this.
• Conversed: "I would kill to have a teacher like that."
• Deconstructed:
  • A handful of Mr. Lawrence's students take advantage of his kindness by acting out as badly as possible.
  • Mr. Lawrence is accused of Grade Inflation due to his classes having the highest average grades in the school.
• Reconstructed:
  • Mr. Lawrence enforces penalties to the offending student(s), to make it very clear that even though he's a nice guy, such antics will not be tolerated.
  • The other students who like Mr. Lawrence as a teacher call them out for their behaviour, asking if they want him to be stricter on them.
  • Mr. Lawrence's students perform very well on standardized exams, with low failure rates and marks consistent with the grades they receive from him.
• Played for Drama: Mr. Lawrence behaves so friendly and casually with the students due to being a friendless and bullied student as a boy. When he learns that his students actually view him as a joke and a loser, he snaps and kills one of them. He retains his friendly demeanour during the investigation, using his knowledge of the victim to frame other students.