1. The Breakfast Club Assistant Principal Richard Vernon
John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is often considered the greatest high school movie of all time and it features one of the worst teachers in cinema history. Five students from different cliques report to school for Saturday Detention and, throughout the course of the film, realise that they have more in common then previously thought. They share their fears and anxieties with each other and discover that they are more than their stereotypes. Assistant Principal Vernon is an adult who perpetuates these stereotypes and does not expect these students to ever rise above his two dimensional preconceptions . He is an "educator" who is only in it for the paycheck and summers off. He does not nurture his students, nor does he listen or encourage. The assignment that he gives the Breakfast Club at the beginning of the film perfectly encapsulates Assistant Principal Vernon's own ignorance and acts as a far superior reason as to why he claims the number one spot on the list of top ten terrible movie teachers... Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did
was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? So there you are. Ten truly terrible movie teachers. Did you learn a thing or two along the way? Why not throw us a comment or two?