Young, well-educated, and good-looking Sylvia Barrett is a first-year English teacher at Calvin Coolidge High, an underfunded inner city public school. She hopes to impart her love of literature on her students but is hampered by her inexperience, the students’ indifference, and the bewildering bureaucracy imposed on her by the administration. Intending to share some words of wisdom with her class on the first day, she instead finds herself unable to so much as get through taking attendance before the dismissal bell rings. Sylvia perseveres […]