George McAllister

George McAllister works at Welton Academy as a Latin teacher. He starts the movie off opposing Mr. Keating's teachings, but soon learns to go against tradition and teach his students in a more engaging way.

Mr. Keating
George finds John Keating's students ripping up the pages of the books unattended, he assumes they are going rowdy. Once Mr. Keating comes back into frame, he lets the situation be, but questions his practices at the dinner hall. He argues that Mr. Keating is filling his students up with false hope that they can be artists. That at the boys are at an impressionable age where they cannot decide things for themselves.

Mr. Keating responds with his own insightful, yet cheeky counterargument. He argues that it's not false hope since in their dreams, they can truly be free. After this, the two seem to warm up to each other. They are often having discussions in the back room of Mr. Keating's classroom.

After Neil Perry's suicide, the two knew their friendship would soon end as Keating would be fired. George truly learned how to be a better educator for his students in the brief months he knew Mr. Keating. Their onscreen friendship ends once Mr. Keating is shown to be observing an outdoor Latin lesson where Mr. McAllister tries to engage his students with the topic.

They wave each other goodbye before Mr. Keating leaves Welton Academy.