Who else was outraged at Ms Wheatley?

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At first I thought she was just quite frustrated (understandably). As I watched the episodes, though, she began to appear increasingly shrill until the last couple, where she's shown to treat Jonah quite unfairly. Definitely the least likeable character from the show.

Are you guys kidding me? Jonah was nothing but disruptive, rude, and downright disrespectful... In, AND out of class. She knew he was always behind *beep* getting started and had no tolerance for it.

Although I thought Jonah was hilarious, my sympathies are with Miss Wheatley in this show. Jonah's behaviour was deplorable, especially when he persistently kept asking her if she had her period and distracted her whole class making it impossible for her to teach.

My reading on the situation with Jonah and Miss Wheatly was that it was a satire to show how ridiculous things can be - it was well known that Jonah was highly disruptive at the best of times, and could only read at the level of a 7 year old child (hence the remedial classes at Gumnut College). So why was he in an English class taught by a young, inexperienced female teacher, trying to read books well beyond his ability? That situation was not fair for either Miss Wheatley or for Jonah.

She's fine as hell!

That's not how you handle a kid like Jonah. She was an evil harpy.

I'm in shock that people are actually defending her actions in the last episode. Say what you will about Jonah and how frustrating he would be as a student, the way she talked down to him and humiliated him was more than bitchy. It was unprofessional. Asking him to give her "any T word, do you know what the letter T is?" was completely out of line and I would hope most people would see that!

At the start of the series I felt bad for her. Jonah was disrupting her teaching and thus effecting the learning of other kids. That doesn't change the fact she acted wrongly and inappropriately at the end. It doesn't matter how much of a problem student Jonah may have been, that does not excuse an adult, a TEACHER, carrying on the way she did.

She reminded me of the 'new' teachers I had in high school: the young inexperienced ones who truthfully aren't much older than the students they teach, so they assert their authority by being over the top and often unfair. Methinks if Ms Wheatley had employed a similar teaching strategy to the woman at Gumnut College, showing Jonah warmth and respect and positive reinforcement when he gets things right, Jonah would not have 'acted up' in her classes to such an extent. Instead she was nasty, belittling and humiliating. Of course Jonah wasn't going to try for her.

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The fact of the matter is, situations like this occur in real life and schools shouldn't be placing such students in classes they can't handle. A teacher that lacks experience is in no way going to be able to teach a kid like that properly and it's sad to see any teacher talk down to a student whether it seems warranted or not. They are professionals and role models. The relationship Jonah had with the Gumnut teacher was touching. I wish there were more caring teachers out there but they are hard to come by. I had no problem finishing school but I can say without a doubt I had some horrible teachers that didn't give a *beep* They read you some crap and hand out worksheets and tests. That's not teaching.

Also, Ms. Wheatley was hott