Abbott Elementary
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Welcome back to the halls of Abbott Elementary after a brief break in episodes last week.
This is an important canon moment forAbbott Elementaryas this confirmed the school teaches middle-school-aged students.
I love this because with older students comes a whole other set of problems.
By eighth grade, the idyllic days of nap time and storybooks are long gone.
The world becomes harsher and less forgiving.
Right and wrong go beyond sharing and being a good friend now there are consequences and the scientific method.
Personality types like Gregory and the eighth-grade teacher Mr. Morton thrive within the rigidity and confines of science.
But others, like Janine, prefer open-ended creativity where everyone wins as long as you believe in yourself.
Gregory counters, Its actually only about whether or not the eggs break.
All this egg talk gets Melissa interested, and now her class is participating in the experiment, too.
The second-graders work hard on their egg containers with the project essentially being another arts-and-crafts activity.
The second- and eighth-graders convene in the gym to test out their devices.
Mr. Morton is reveling in the methodology and empirical elements that come with the physics behind the egg-drop exercise.
second-graders staring at the mess of yolk, proclaiming there are no winners or losers.
Eli pleads to his broken egg, Its okay, Ralph, you just have to believe.
Melissa, who went before Janine at the demonstration, admits to cheating.
Its the basis of the scientific method the academic version of fucking around and finding out.
Failure is one of the most natural parts of the human experience.
This doesnt mean it should feel good; it just means its inevitable.
She falls, further proving Gregorys point.
So she started wearing Velcro shoes.
Projecting her experience onto the next generation, she vows to get her students metaphorical Velcro shoes.
Three hours of YouTube videos later, she has her class remake their contraptions.
Always tenacious, Janine pivots.
And the broken eggs fittingly left egg on Mr. Mortons face.
Ralph Jr., though.
The mom obliges, zipping up her hoodie, which has Slut written prominently on the front.
Barbara is even more appalled that this mom chooses this kind of lifestyle.
Barbara realizes shes misjudged the parent and apologies for her harshness.
I also love the subplot with Jacob correctly clocking Mr. Mortons passive aggression.
Jacob was nearly bursting trying not to overshare why the two teachers have beef.
I love ongoing gags that emphasize the characters personalities.
Were getting incrementally closer to a real romantic moment between Janine and Gregory.
The discussion about science in the breakroom was golden.
