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Smellmyhand t1_ja4eddr wrote

Reply to comment by Beans-and-frank in Is Abbott Elementary overrated? by ShEditor83

The principal is partly why I couldn’t get into it. The actress is great and I would’ve loved the character as a teacher but it was just so jarring having such an incompetent person being in charge, even for a sitcom. And it’s blatant incompetency, not just a nuisance like Michael Scott. It’s like the writers use her purely as a conflict device. Maybe I didn’t watch enough yet but it was just so one dimensional

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Big-Ambitions-8258 t1_ja6q7cc wrote

She gets more dimensional as the show goes on.

The thing is like alot of this is based off Quinta's mom experience as a teacher, and alot of teachers have chimed in that Ava is basically atleast someone they actually know from school administration/school districts.

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NGNSteveTheSamurai t1_ja67plj wrote

They address her incompetency and there’s a whole episode explaining how she has the job.

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