16 TV Teachers Who Seemed Completely Normal But Were Actually The Worst

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We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us who were some of the worst TV teachers in history, and they delivered! Here are some of the best responses.

1. Annalise Keating from How to Get Away With Murder:

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"Even though she did help her students get out of bad situations, she always had a hand in putting them there."

—ImagineAmbassadors

2. Geraldine Grundy from Riverdale:

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"Do not date a student! As someone in the education field, I just find it so cringey to see teachers on TV shows doing it, because it’s illegal!"

—kaitlinc4c34acace

3. Will Schuester from Glee:

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"I know it’s always talked about, but I just can’t get over how the show continued to represent him as a good guy when he did so much wrong and was never held accountable for his actions. Apart from being creepy and having a superiority complex, he was just a bad teacher who didn't know the subject he was teaching and only started the glee club to justify his feelings that he was a ‘good person.'"

—aniedselius

4. Winnie Oh from Degrassi: The Next Generation:

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"She freaking dated one of her students. I think that speaks for itself."

—emihaha13

5. Tamara Jacobs from Dawson's Creek:

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"The fact that she kept sleeping with Pacey and then got angry when things went wrong or when he tried to be with her — what did you expect? You’re an adult and he’s a teenager; you cannot blame him for anything. This was all her fault."

—rach_g_l

6. Ross Geller from Friends:

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"Just here to remind everyone that Ross slept with one of his students and one of his coworkers."

—sabrina

7. Miss French from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

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"She was a giant praying mantis who bit the heads off of men and almost got to Xander. Like, murder trumps sex for bad-teacher criteria!"

—LibbyLuWho2

8. Ezra Fitz from Pretty Little Liars:

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"Not only did he date a student, but he dated a student to get information from her. I hated that he and Aria got married in the end because it kinda gave the idea that student-teacher relationships are okay, when they’re definitely not."

—KAL63

9. Ms. Blake from Teen Wolf:

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"First she appears to be spending her time at school infatuated by Derek, and then it turns out that she's been serial-killing students left, right, and center. Talk about a bad teacher."

—daljitje

10. Cassandra July from Glee:

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"She manipulated Rachel so she could romance Brody (another student), who happened to be dating/interested in Rachel."

—jbmasta

11. Rachel Carr from Gossip Girl:

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"That one teacher who slept with Dan. Yikes."

—coconutflakes

12. Ben Chang from Community:

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"I know that was the plotline, but he didn't even know Spanish and was using his position to be a jerk to the study group."

—Shrek

13. Max Medina from Gilmore Girls:

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"He's a very sweet guy, but he and Lorelai should have known better than to put Rory in such an awkward place like that. Remember when Paris Geller told everyone that the new girl's mother was dating the English teacher? Teachers and parents should protect, not mortify, students."

—books_baking_broadway

14. Dr. Jack Carson Griffin from A.P. Bio:

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"Even though he helps them out with their interpersonal skills and lives sometimes, he refuses to teach them any of the school curriculum and has them work on revenge schemes for him against his enemies instead."

—GigiMomster

15. Alaric Saltzman from The Vampire Diaries:

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"I can’t tell you how many times the TVD universe has tried to force the audience to love this guy with the 'loving guardian and aloof drinking buddy' storyline. By the time Legacies began to air, he was just this hovering professor who seems to know absolutely nothing about his daughters."

—Shelby Yarchin

16. And Mr. Peterson from Dawson's Creek:

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"Didn't he force a kid to come out in front of his entire class? Boo!"

—zeilerra

Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.