Abbott Elementary: Ava and Her Band of Teachers

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As co-showrunner Patrick Schumaker hinted in an interview, Ava’s firing was a plot decision to illustrate “just how much the school and the people who really are the school mean to the community.” We love Abbott Elementary for its witty jokes, loveable cast, and adorable little ones, but we stay because the show’s brilliance is in the way it depicts an idealized but still realistic community, which is something we all subconsciously yearn for during a time...