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Mr. O'Neill was gentle, soft spoken and ludicrously sensitive, very in touch with his emotions but incapable of controlling them. His English assignments were often ill-disguised attempts to get his students to express personal pain or experiences, and he himself would often cry in class. His ability to perform such simple tasks as remembering his own students' names was come and go at best. During the summer holidays, he ran the disastrous [[Okay To Cry Corral]].
In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", when confronted by [[Link]], he stated that he truly cared about helping young people. Link's response that "you suck at it" left him very upset and frantically trying to dismiss the statement.▼
In "[[Fair Enough]]", for the first and only time he snapped at a student who was acting up ([[Brittany Taylor]]) to get them to pay attention, but immediately went back to his usual style after he'd got their attention. Later, when Kevin never turned up, O'Neill showed a brief glimpse of anger in referring to him as "sabotaging our play".
When stunned by a problem student's improvement in class, he has been known to 'reward' this by displaying the student or their new work to the school... which mortifies the student in question. ("[[Esteemsters]]", "[[Quinn the Brain]]")
▲In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", when confronted by [[Link]], he stated that he truly cared about helping young people. Link's response that "you suck at it" left him very upset and frantically trying to dismiss the statement.
He lives in an apartment building in Lawndale, where a despondent Timothy had his worries of failing as a teacher eased by Daria and Jane in the episode [[The F Word]].
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