Education World takes a closer look at some of TV’s most loved teachers, and measures them against the Rubric for Effective Teaching and the teacher Code of Ethics. You’ll be surprised by what we found.
In a popular Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown muses about how much their teacher, Miss Othmar, is paid. Linus, indignant, shouts, “PAID?” and pronounces the idea she accepts money for teaching as outrageous. His favorite teacher appr.
The curators say the strips, three of which were acquired from a private collector last year and will be on show for the first time, are âa rare opportunity to see characters differing from the beloved Peanuts Gangâ.
But some similarities are clear. Irascible, overbearing and loud, the storeroom manager Ms Hamhock could easily be Charlie Brownâs nemesis, Lucy van Pelt, grown up.
And it is not difficult to see Elmer Hagemayer, a meek and compliant worker whose cheerfulness and optimism provides the blunting edge to Ms Hamhockâs gruffness, as a grown-up Charlie Brown.
Attitudes and circumstances of the era are reflected in some of the strips. In one panel, Elmer Hagemayer tells a colleague: âI just canât get used to having a woman for a boss.â In another, Hagemayer mistakenly uses Ms Hamhockâs prized ground coffee, a luxury in the postwar era, as a fragrant compound for sweeping the floor.