Bad Teacher A foul-mouthed reprobate works in a traditionally wholesome profession with young people secretly plots to serve her own ends.

In the narrative being driven by “education reformers,” the “bad teacher” has emerged as the greatest threat to our future. This threat is being used to justify a wholesale attack on the ...

Entertainment Movie review: 'Bad Teacher' gets a passing grade Published: Jun. 24, 2011, 12:20 p.m.

Cameron Diaz brings her blonde va-va-room to the raunchy comedy “Bad Teacher," an only fitfully funny misfire that lands on the wrong side of the line between genuinely subversive humor and ...

Rather than spending energy trying to ferret out the inadequate teachers, we might focus on producing, and retaining, genuinely excellent educators, creating a culture of teaching expertise.

Bad Teacher Bad ReviewsI'm curious, however, to learn which panned movies you liked, in spite of their less-than-glowing reviews? Besides Bad Teacher, I'm also guilty of unabashedly enjoying the ...

Cameron Diaz has the top film on Netflix thanks to her 2011 comedy Bad Teacher Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in ...

Bad Teacher has one massive blind spot: For a movie purportedly about teaching, it seems curiously uninterested in children, focusing almost entirely on the sniping among the middle-school faculty.

Bad teacher C+ Like a fifth-grader mangling a punch line he overheard his big brother kill with, Bad Teacher feels a bit like a rehash of better, funnier works. This starts with the title.

Keeping a movie audience engaged is a matter of keeping them sympathetic with the characters’ goals, and the unlikeable characters of “Bad Teacher” do little to inspire sympathy or caring.

1. Bad ain’t bad, but you gotta be worse As part of the post-Hangover hangover of studio comedies reaching for raunch, Bad Teacher promised to be full of good ol’ bad taste. But where is it ...