The character role of the teachers in Mr. Holland’s Opus continued in the same stereotyped fashion as the student roles. The movie portrayed a representation of various roles, for instance, the coach, the new teacher, and the rule follower. Most of the teachers were neither interactive nor proactive in the education of the students; not even Mr. Holland. He saw teaching as a means of income while composing music and never thought it would be something he would continue to do. Throughout the movie teacher dialogue would portray teachers as frustrated, unsympathetic, out of touch dictators.
