After all, none of them are in this job for the pay it’s a calling. Ava’s plan, however, backfires when Barbara and the others come to Janine’s defense and encourage her to keep trying to provide for her students.
The lunchtime scheduling also means they’re forced to eat cafeteria pizza, which even a hungry child politely refuses. Janine sends an email about Ava to the higher-ups, but it gets bounced to Ava, who calls a trust meeting and invites all the teachers to basically dump on Janine. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to Janine that Ava uses the $3,000 the school district sends to buy a large vanity sign rather than much needed supplies, but it does. She also openly and repeatedly lusts after Gregory, joking to his face that she thought her colleagues hired her a stripper. Ava even brings in a film crew that’s documenting underfunded public schools, citing a “still thriving” Mel Gibson as an example of no press being bad press. (“More turnovers than a bakery,” she laments.)Įven though Ava encourages Janine to send an email with her request, Barbara and the other teachers know Ava is bad at her job, which she only got because she caught the superintendent cheating on his wife. Barbara scoffs at Janine’s naivety and wants to know why the young teachers can’t hack it. When one of the kids pees on the class rug, which Janine describes as like a huge Xanax for the students to sit on, Janine asks Principal Ava Coleman ( Black Monday‘s Janelle James) for money to get a new one. (Before Gregory arrives, a 70-year-old janitor who voted for Kanye is put in charge of the classroom.)ĭespite the challenges of her job, Janine is optimistic and determined to help her students. Her colleagues include Barbara Howard ( Moesha‘s Sheryl Lee Ralph), an elegant, older kindergarten teacher who actually commands respect from her students without needing to count to 40 second grade teacher Melissa Schemmenti ( The Parent Trap‘s Lisa Ann Walter), who has a guy for everything history teacher Jacob Hill ( In the Dark‘s Chris Perfetti), one of the few survivors from his and Janine’s group of newbie teachers and Gregory Eddie ( Everybody Hates Chris‘ Tyler James Williams), who comes in as a sub after one of the teachers loses her cool and kicks a child. The comedy stars A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Quinta Brunson (who also wrote the pilot) as Janine Teagues, a second grade teacher at a Philadelphia public school that can’t even afford textbooks that include the last three presidents so Janine tapes them into the back pages.
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