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Hollywood's Top Fictional Teachers

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 30, 2009 2:51 PM CDT

(Newser) – Never had an inspiring, funny, or even downright godawful teacher? Luckily, Hollywood has them in spades. Babble presents the 40 best fictional teachers:

Ms. Norbury, Mean Girls: She taught “the female student body to lay off the sexist insults.”
Economics teacher, Ferris Bueller’

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