Ms. Francine Briggs

Francine Briggs is a female Scottish-American teacher at Ridgeway High School. She plays the bagpipes and loves Scottish music and dancing. She is also obsessed with Randy Jackson, and has a closet of his merchandise (including Randy-O cereal, a life-size cardboard cut out and cologne, which Freddie stole). She dislikes Sam Puckett the most out of all her students. She is portrayed by Mindy Sterling. Ms. Briggs is Carly, Freddie, Sam, and Gibby's English teacher.

She is also a sportswoman, we can see her in the episode iSpy a Mean Teacher doing various gymnastic exercises.

Trivia

 * Ms. Briggs harbors an intense dislike for Spencer Shay and was glad to have gotten rid of him. She despised him so much, when he came back to the school in iWant More Viewers, she gave Freddie detention because Spencer wouldn't leave, and threatened to expel Freddie. Ms. Briggs hated Spencer ever since he was aHaha.jpg Ridgeway Middle School, and when Carly first mentioned him in iPilot, she has an irritated expression on her face, and says disdainfully, "Ah, the artist."
 * Carly and Sam make fun of Ms. Briggs' "crazy, pointy boobs" in the episode iPilot. Ironically, Mindy Sterling has been a breast cancer survivor since 1998, having undergone a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and tamoxifen.Briggs.jpg
 * According to iPilot, Ms. Briggs used to have a brown lump on her nose, but she had it surgically removed.
 * In iSpy a Mean Teacher, Ms. Briggs states she hates citrus fruits.
 * Also, in iSpy a Mean Teacher, it is revealed that Ms. Briggs has an obsession with Randy Jackson, as she has a shrine of him in a room. One of Freddie's blogs claims that she got engaged to a Randy Jackson impersonator, and that they would be getting married at Ryan Seacrest's house.
 * Her home address is 321 East Argyle. This was revealed in iDate a Bad Boy, when Freddie tried to woo Carly by sending Ms. Briggs a fishy pizza. ("Welcome to Bad Boy T7.")
 * She had the first sentence in the entire series.CarlySamshouldertoshoulderwithMissBriggs.jpg