Springfield Elementary School

:This article is about the fictitious Springfield Elementary School in the television program "The Simpsons." There are also many real Springfield Elementary Schools in the United States.

Teachers

Edna Krabappel

Voiced by Marcia Wallace, Edna Krabappel is a sterotypical "downtrodden schoolteacher" who has had any idealism that she ever had beaten out of her by the sad realities of resource hungry schools and misbehaving children. Despite holding a Master's degree from Bryn Mawr College, she seems poorly educated, a caricature of American public school teachers, as evidenced by the episode when Lisa steals all the teacher's manuals and the teachers are unable to do any work.

Related Topics:
Marcia Wallace - Bryn Mawr College

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Edna teaches Bart Simpson, Milhouse van Houten, Nelson Muntz and Martin Prince, among others.

Related Topics:
Bart Simpson - Milhouse van Houten - Nelson Muntz - Martin Prince

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Edna is separated from her husband, who ran off with their marriage counselor. As a result, she severely misses male company, and it is occasionally implied that she feels her biological clock ticking. In early episodes she is portrayed as very sexually aggressive: in the episode Flaming Moe, she tried to pick up both the drummer from Aerosmith and Homer Simpson, even after learning that he was married. In later episodes, though, she develops a secret (but seemingly stable) romantic relationship with Seymour Skinner, the school's principal, which almost makes it to the altar. This is one of the exceedingly few cases where Simpsons characters have apparently undergone personal evolution within the show's history. However, she's also been seen gadding about with Apu, Sideshow Bob, and Comic Book Guy. She also fell victim to one of Bart Simpson's pranks when he pretended to be Woodrow in the episode "Bart the Lover".

Related Topics:
Flaming Moe - Aerosmith - Homer Simpson - Sideshow Bob - Bart Simpson

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Her last name is pronounced "krah-BAH-pull", a play on the fruit "crabapple". Matt Groening admitted in a commentary on the DVD of the first season, it was meant to be a joke that no one called her "crabapple," and indeed no one did-until the real Seymour Skinner came along (see above) and then Milhouse did it once in the fifteenth season (2003-04). Chief Wiggum also once said, upon hearing her name spoken: "Really? I always thought it was crabapple..."

Related Topics:
Crabapple - DVD - Milhouse

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Much to his embarrassment, for a long time Homer thought her name was "Crandall".

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Elizabeth Hoover

Voiced by Maggie Roswell, Miss Hoover has been worn down by her years in the public school system, and is not against drinking significant quantities of alcohol. She is very apathetic and bored with her job. She is often seen smoking even while teaching.

Related Topics:
Maggie Roswell - Alcohol

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She is in particular weary of dealing with Lisa's unbridled enthusiasm and Ralph's mishaps and inanities. She was replaced by a substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom, played by Dustin Hoffman when she thought she had Lyme disease. It turned out that she was psychosomatic, which, the children correctly guessed, meant that she was both "faking it," and "crazy."

Related Topics:
Dustin Hoffman - Lyme disease - Psychosomatic

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Dewey Largo

Dewey Largo is the music teacher, whom Lisa credited with proving that any piece of music could have the soul sucked out of it.

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