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For the record, Technoblade takes his job as a teacher assistant very seriously.
He always makes sure to be professional and do all his work well. Help Phil teach the class and take over when he can't, assign homework, grade tests and stop a class full children from causing chaos.
But, there are times where it gets incredibly boring and that's where the secret that all teachers have comes in.
The Favourite Students.
If you ask any teacher they would say there is no such thing and they hold every student to the same regard. They're lying.
Favourite Students are the ones that make your day better for one reason or another. The story of how Technoblade got one is laughable now that he thinks about it.
Tommy Innit isn't necessarily what you call a perfect student even though he tries. He doesn't always do well on schoolwork but you can clearly see the effort.
Overall, he isn't a bad student. The problem is that his artistic skill and creative mind far surpasses his ability to do a simple math equation or spell the word consequences correctly.
It started with a small drawing in the corner of his English homework that Techno absentmindedly complemented.
Unfortunately, Tommy took that as encouragement to continue and doodle in all his papers. Drawing faces, animals, locations and even characters doing things.
With Tommy's creative mind coming up with scenarios/ dialogues/actions and his skill in drawing well and with accuracy, those "characters doing things" doodles soon became a whole comic.
And Technoblade, embarrassingly so, became invested.
It was just too well written. The characters had wonderfull character development and designs as well as realistic personalities and goals. The plot was intriguing and with every scene had the reader at the edge of their seat.
Now if only Tommy used half that talent to write his English essays.
Technoblade shouldn't have allowed the situation to escalate as it did because now he is too invested in the story to tell Tommy to stop writing it.
It became his favourite part in grading papers and he would usually write comments complementing the work or asking questions about the plot.
Something that Phil definitely knew about and pretended he didn't. Honestly, there is nothing in this school that the man doesn't know.
Especially when he caught Techno holding a history exam and silently crying cause Tommy killed off one of his favourite characters. (If you asked Technoblade why he graded that exam more harshly than usual he would reply that teachers don't have time for things such as petty revenge.)
So, yes. Teachers absolutely have Favourite Students, and Technoblade wouldn't trade his for anyone else.