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Fictional teachers we wish we had
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It’s back to school season, which has us thinking about our favorite teachers. The ones who really saw us, changed our points of view, or set us on new paths. But of all the teachers we’ve seen in TV and movies, which of them do we wish we’d had to educate us in real life? Today we’re talking about fictional on-screen teachers – from My Girl, My So-Called Life, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habitand Dune: Part One.
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