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For the past few weeks, Abbott Elementary has sprinkled in undertones of an ongoing crisis. Amid blazing fires and lovers who won’t confess their feelings to one another, a larger dilemma faces the entire team at Abbott: What’s going on with the charter school trying to take the reins of the public school?
This week’s episode, “Festival,” faces that issue head on. There’s no getting around Legendary Charter Schools at this point. Our beloved teachers receive the worst news at the beginning of the episode: Legendary has filed to seize control of Abbott Elementary, effective immediately, should the school board approve the motion.
Anyone who knows anything about school boards knows that they usually don’t have the teachers best interest in mind when making these decisions. School boards aren’t made up of teachers, but rather community members who want to vote on educational matters—a teacher from another district could sit on the board in the area where they live, but usually, these boards are made up of regular community members.