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Abbott Elementary Recap: District Bingo
Nothing dampens Valentine’s Day quite like crashing out over a miscommunicated “I love you.”
Educators know this more than anyone — in a bleak sub-Reddit for teachers, one user described the current system as a machine that’s been “held together by duct tape for so long.” Another offered this telling quote from The Handmaid’s Tale: “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” When shifting focus to the lack of funding from the district, Abbott successfully maintains its acclaimed feel-good factor while still guiding viewers toward asking questions like: Why are our teachers reaching into their own pockets to provide supplies? Ava is unfazed; after a year of exercising her “black belt in blackmail,” she knows Abbott has enough resources, and she believes that her time learning the language of the district and going out of her way to present her Ed-Talk will put her in the school board’s good graces.
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