A recent multi-episode arc on “Abbott Elementary” presented an artful, sustained, hilarious polemic against the privatization of public schools—specifically, against the influence of charter schools, which receive public financing but are privately run.
,” has said in interviews that she always intended for it to be a family-friendly network show. She wanted “Abbott,” a comedy about teachers in an underfunded, predominately Black public school in Philadelphia, to be near-universally accessible, regardless of a viewer’s age or streaming options. What Brunson went on to achieve is as close to a monocultural television phenomenon as may be possible in the streaming era.
Addington, which is part of a network called Legendary Charter Schools, is a taunting presence, a have to Abbott’s have-not. It becomes a more immediate threat later in the season, when Draemond Winding , Legendary’s founder, vows that he will convert every public school in Philadelphia into a charter, and next up is Abbott. In a quasi-Oedipal twist, it is revealed that, thirty years ago, Draemond was a student in Barbara’s very first kindergarten class at Abbott.
The first charter schools in Philadelphia opened in 1997, several years after Barbara would have taught Draemond’s kindergarten class. By 2019, more than a third of all students in publicly funded schools in Philadelphia were enrolled in charters. The growth is in spite of research showing that many charter schools perform about as well as—or worse—than the public schools that they drain of funding and resources.
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