The Toit Stuff (about sitcoms)

So excited to talk about this (Emmy winning) show as I can’t believe that I’ve hardly written about it on here. As the title (albeit, clumsily) suggests, this blog is about the brilliant new American sitcom ‘Abbott Elementary’, which stars Quinta Brunson (who created the show) and started airing in 2021. ‘AE’ is a mockumentary style sitcom (a bit like ’The Office’ or ‘Modern Family’ or, one of my personal faves, ‘Parks and Recreation’). ‘AE’ tells of the teachers in an elementary/primary school in Philadelphia with predominantly Black pupils and teachers and focuses on a lot of real things that many teachers in underfunded schools in USA with overworked and underpaid teachers really deal with all the time and how hard it is to be a teacher generally, even if it can also be incredibly rewarding. I’m sure that real teachers can perhaps resonate with certain aspects of the show but you don’t have to work in education to get at least a bit more of an understanding of what it’s like as...