Chapter Two: Ignorance Is No Excuse Summary and Analysis

Even though Tony doesn't have to be in school until then, he doesn't want to start a morale problem with the other teachers and plans to arrive by seven o'clock each morning. He is wakened by his alarm at 4:30 in the apartment he rented for the year he'll be in Philadelphia. He pulls into school just after 7 am. Northeast is the largest high school in Philadelphia and has a football stadium, huge cafeteria and several gyms. There's even a Philadelphia police station located on campus.

The producers had a hard time finding a school that would agree to do the show. Finally, an education advocate, Sharon Pinkenson, appealed to the Philadelphia mayor on behalf of the show. It would be able to help the school system she told him. Mayor Nutter...