Miss Alordayne Grotke is a fourth-grade teacher in the show, Recess. She is adored by her pupils because she is possibly the only teacher who stands up for the kids.
Background[]
Personality[]
Unlike the other adults seen in the series, Miss Grotke is a kind and considerate woman who sees the best in the children that she teaches. She is much more optimistic in her view of the world than say Miss Finster or Principal Prickly. Raised as a hippie, Grotke is something of a flower child, though not as lax as one. She is very liberal, but also slightly a radical as when she talked about the first Thanksgiving, she referred to the two groups as the "noble Native Americans" and the "undeserving European savages". She does have a tough standing as she scolded T.J. Detweiler for trying to bribe her with money so that Gus Griswald could get on the bus to the fair. She has other hobbies outside of school such as magic and as revealed in Recess: School's Out, martial arts.
Physical appearance[]
Miss Grotke is a tall slender woman with brown skin and large black curly hair. She has an overbite with noticeable front teeth, round yellow glasses and blue triangular earrings. She wears a blue stone necklace and a long green dress paired with simple sandals. While rarely shown, she is shown to have unshaven legs as well.
Abilities[]
Miss Grotke is proficient in basic magic tricks. In Recess: School's Out, she displays rather advanced martial arts prowess, though contrary to how she used it, she claims that she practices purely for recreational use.
Trivia[]
- In "Operation Field Trip", the codename that Miss Grotke uses to communicate with the dispatcher is "Earth Mama".
- Paul and Joe stated that Miss Grotke is of Indian descent.
- In "Mama's Girl", Miss Grotke tells Spinelli that they are both Libras, meaning that they were both born between September 23 and October 22.
- As confirmed in "The Secret Life of Grotke", she is not married.
- In "The Barnaby Boys", a photo of a young Miss Finster depicted a girl resembling Miss Grotke as one of her students. Due to the fact that Finster taught in the '60s, this would explain Grotke's hippie ideals.
- In a display of being ahead of the time, in "Parents' Night" Miss Grotke openly referred to parents being mother, father, or "whatever". Additionally in "Buried Treasure", she acknowledged that history books were most likely written by and focused on "white western males".
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