In the pilot episode of the award-winning sitcom Abbott Elementary, a student pees on a classroom rug. Nicole Wyglendowski has been hooked on the show ever since.
“That was brilliant,” says Wyglendowski, a special education teacher in North Philadelphia. “It shows the crazy stuff you don’t think about when you’re like, ‘Oh, I’ll be a teacher someday.'”
The show, which is nearing the end of its second season, is set in a fictional Philadelphia public school, not unlike the one Wyglendowski has worked at for the last five years.
