Synopsis

When Eric Scutella's parents force him to attend the relatively new, strangely patriotic, and counter-intuitively successful local Charter School, he struggles to find his place in a school filled with established cliques, quirky teachers, and bizarre traditions. In a parallel plot, first-year teacher Jessica Graham is hired the day before school starts and strives to handle her first day with strength and class, but two minutes into her first period, she's wondering how she'll make it through the year.