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===Teaching===

From the very beginning of the show, he is shown as having become ''very'' disillusioned with his role as an educator. One of the show's running gags was Mr. DeMartino's bitterness over his low salary and disgust at the incompetence of several of his students, particularly [[Brittany Taylor]] and [[Kevin Thompson]], who never seemed to make any effort to succeed in his class, and, if their classroom performance was any indication of their abilities, may have been educationally incompetent to the point of functional illiteracy and therefore thoroughly unteachable in a conventional classroom setting. Principal Li has a standing order that DeMartino is to be no longer request retirement ''during'' classes. In "[[Is it Fall Yet?"]], in his lowest hour, he broke down at the idea that he was just "no good at working with young people".

From the very beginning of the show, he is shown as having become ''very'' disillusioned with his role as an educator. One of the show's running gags was Mr. DeMartino's bitterness over his low salary and disgust at the incompetence of several of his students, particularly [[Brittany Taylor]] and [[Kevin Thompson]], who never seemed to make any effort to succeed in his class, and, if their classroom performance was any indication of their abilities, may have been educationally incompetent to the point of functional illiteracy and therefore thoroughly unteachable in a conventional classroom setting. Principal Li has a standing order that DeMartino is to be no longer request retirement ''during'' classes. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", in his lowest hour, he broke down at the idea that he was just "no good at working with young people".

While frustrated with his life to an almost maniac state, Mr. DeMartino is shown at points to enjoy teaching ''some'' students. This is highlighted by his frequent almost-friendly tolerance for Daria Morgendorffer on occasion, as well as for her sister Quinn Morgendorffer on those few occasions when she shows some depth or displays some of her true academic prowess and potential. [[Helen Morgendorffer]] appears to view him as the only competent teacher at the school, turning him to get information in "[[The Lawndale File]]" as "he's a bit high-strung but he's a fixture at that school". In "[[Antisocial Climbers]]", while grumbling about it, he went out on his own in a blizzard to find help for the trapped students.