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Luke Tennie, Jerry Minor, Lisa Ann Walter and Syeryl Lee Ralph sitting together in Abbott Elementary. .<\/p>\n Luke Tennie, Jerry Minor, Lisa Ann Walter and Syeryl Lee Ralph sitting together in Abbott Elementary. .<\/p>\n
Spoilers for <\/strong>Abbott Elementary\u2019s <\/strong>Season 5 premiere are ahead! To catch up, you can stream new episodes the day after they air on ABC with a <\/strong>Hulu subscription<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s back-to-school season, and the fall premieres are upon us on the 2025 TV schedule<\/a>, which means it\u2019s time to watch Season 5 of Abbott Elementary<\/a> and talk about it. There\u2019s a lot to talk about, too! Over the summer, there\u2019s been a lot of moving and shaking in this Philadelphia school, both personally and professionally. However, there\u2019s one change among the teachers that I really loved, and I need to talk about it.<\/p>\n Now, Janine is getting a bigger class and was trying on new personalities. A new teacher, played by Shrinking\u2019s Luke Tennie, was introduced. Barbara found her \u201cgroove\u201d with music class. Also, Ava was creating new HR violations by flaunting her relationship with O\u2019Shon.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Melissa is taking on an entirely new position. That\u2019s right, the once second-grade teacher has now moved upstairs, where her housemate Jacob works, to teach middle school math. It\u2019s this change that I\u2019m the most excited about.<\/p>\n I was honestly thrilled about it from the jump, because of all the elementary teachers, Lisa Ann Walter\u2019s character feels the most equipped to take on middle schoolers. Plus, her Philly toughness going up against tweens is bound to be hilarious.<\/p>\n What makes it even better is the fact that this episode sets up just how challenging it might be for her. I was laughing so hard watching Jacob and Morton pretend to be middle schoolers as they simulated what it was like to teach them. It\u2019s not often we see Ms. Schemmenti playing defense, but she was in this exchange:<\/p>\n You know something is intense when Morton and Jacob are a united front about it, and that\u2019s for sure the case with how ruthless middle schoolers can be. So, I\u2019m looking forward to Melissa finding her footing and eventually ruling her classroom (because I know she will). I\u2019m positive it\u2019ll be funny to see her handle tweens for the first time while simultaneously trying to teach math, and I can\u2019t wait to watch it.<\/p>\n I also love this change because it marks a major shift in the teaching staff at Abbott. While we\u2019ve seen Janine go to work at the district, and Ava got fired<\/a> last season with Gregory stepping in as interim principal<\/a>, we\u2019ve never seen our core crew of teachers change grades before.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something that happens frequently in schools in real life, and I figured it was bound to happen on Abbott, and personally, I think it happened to the best person. I can\u2019t wait to see Melissa wrangle middle schoolers while Jacob gets put in a position to help her, because he\u2019s the expert here.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2VBKVKBUDPSQKkGng8DjDG.jpg\")
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