The "Abbott Elementary" season finale finds its endlessly optimistic second grade teacher Janine Teagues (Quinta Brunson) floating high in the sky during a class field trip to the zoo. This is not a metaphor – she loses track of a kid, finds him in the basket of the zoo's hot air balloon and before she knows it, the severe acrophobe is floating far above the ground, as terrified as her student.
Then again, maybe it is kind a metaphor. The finale, titled "Zoo Balloon," finds Janine touching down at a fork in the road. She could follow her useless boyfriend to New York, where she would have to continue supporting him. Or stay in Philadelphia and keep plugging away at a job she loves, continuing to teach second grade at the criminally underfunded Willard R. Abbott Elementary School.
