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* AnAesop: Programs that prioritize some over others can end up making the others feel less than. This is especially true for kids, who might end up feeling that they deserve less.
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* AmicableExes: Despite their messy divorce, Melissa is confident to call her ex-husband for love advice and he's more than willing to help her out.

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* AmicableExes: Despite their messy divorce, Melissa is confident enough to call her ex-husband for love advice and he's more than willing to help her out.



** Ava used to be part of a sorority. Though she thinks bitterly about them as they always call just to brag about their successful kids.
** Greg confides in Janine that he was never accepted into a gifted program which made him feel like he wasn't good enough compared to his gifted peers.

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** Ava used to be part of a sorority. Though she thinks bitterly about them her former sisters as they always call just to brag about their successful kids.
** Greg confides in Janine that he was never accepted into a his school's gifted program which made him feel like he wasn't good enough compared to his gifted peers.



* NewTransferStudent: Malcolm is introduced as a new kid from a private academy. To his dismay, he spends most of the day having to cater to Ava's childish antics and trivial tech needs.

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* NewTransferStudent: Malcolm is introduced as a new kid from a private academy. To his dismay, he spends most of the day having to cater to [[{{ManChild}} Ava's childish antics antics]] and trivial tech needs.



** Ava mentions the film ''[[{{Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours}} 127 Hours]]'' while talking with Jacob and then gives the okay for him and Janine to re-open their ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Mutant Academy]]''.
** Jacob compares himself to ''Creator/RobinWilliams'' as he leads the gifted program.

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** Ava mentions the film ''[[{{Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours}} 127 Hours]]'' while talking with Jacob and then gives the okay for him and Janine to re-open their ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Mutant Academy]]''.
[[Film/XMenFilmSeries "mutant academy"]].
** Jacob compares himself to ''Creator/RobinWilliams'' Creator/RobinWilliams as he leads the gifted program.
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** Ava mentions the film ''[[{{Film/27Hours}} 27 Hours]]'' while talking with Jacob and then gives the okay for him and Janine to re-open their ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Mutant Academy]]''.

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** Ava mentions the film ''[[{{Film/27Hours}} 27 ''[[{{Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours}} 127 Hours]]'' while talking with Jacob and then gives the okay for him and Janine to re-open their ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Mutant Academy]]''.

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* AmicableExes: Despite their messy divorce, Melissa is confident to call her ex-husband for love advice and he's more than willing to help her out.



* CommitmentIssues:
* EggSitting:

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* CommitmentIssues:
ArmorPiercingResponse: Malcolm sincerely asks Ava what her job is to which she responds that she's the principal. His response?
-->'''Malcolm:''' But you don't ''do'' anything.
* CommitmentIssues: Melissa has a difficult time pursuing Gary as a boyfriend out of fear of undergoing a messy breakup like she did with her first husband.
* DisproportionateRetribution: After being told off that she doesn't do anything, Ava decides to shut down the gifted program. Though thankfully Janine and friends have an alternative solution that doesn't involve completely shutting it down.
* EggSitting: Jacob's first lesson in the gifted program is a lesson on how chicken eggs hatch. Janine decides to make her own egg raising lesson so her kids won't feel left out. Unfortunately, she got them from Melissa who ended up providing her with eggs from an endangered species of ''snakes''.



** Ava sorority
** Greg was denied

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** Ava sorority
used to be part of a sorority. Though she thinks bitterly about them as they always call just to brag about their successful kids.
** Greg confides in Janine that he was denied never accepted into a gifted program which made him feel like he wasn't good enough compared to his gifted peers.



* NewTransferStudent: Malcolm
* NoodleIncident: Janine has a habit of stealing food from the cafeteria for visual learning.
* OfficeRomance: Melissa Gary
* RunningGag: Making fun of Janine's walking
* SayingTooMuch: Ava money
* ShoutOut: mutant academy 27 hours
jacob robin williams
* SkewedPriorities: Gregory

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* NewTransferStudent: Malcolm
Malcolm is introduced as a new kid from a private academy. To his dismay, he spends most of the day having to cater to Ava's childish antics and trivial tech needs.
* NoodleIncident: Janine has a habit of stealing food from the cafeteria for visual learning.
learning lessons.
* OfficeRomance: Melissa Gary
and Gary seem to have an attraction to each other and Barbara encourages them to get together.
* RunningGag: Making Ava making fun of Janine's walking
how Janine walks or enters a room.
* SayingTooMuch: While informing the staff about the school's former gifted program, Ava money
brings up how she's tried to use that program's money for her own reasons with no avail.
* ShoutOut: mutant academy ShipperOnDeck: Barbara can see sparks between her fellow queen and the vending machine guy and encourages the former to give him a chance.
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** Ava mentions the film ''[[{{Film/27Hours}}
27 hours
jacob robin williams
Hours]]'' while talking with Jacob and then gives the okay for him and Janine to re-open their ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Mutant Academy]]''.
** Jacob compares himself to ''Creator/RobinWilliams'' as he leads the gifted program.
* SkewedPriorities: Gregory is upset about the program taking some of his kids because they're the most talkative. And without them, he needs to be the one to fill the silence.

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* AnAesop: Programs that prioritize some over others can end up making the others feel less than. This is especially true for kids, who might end up feeling that they deserve less

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* AnAesop: Programs that prioritize some over others can end up making the others feel less than. This is especially true for kids, who might end up feeling that they deserve lessless.
* CommitmentIssues:
* EggSitting:
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** Ava sorority
** Greg was denied


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* NewTransferStudent: Malcolm
* NoodleIncident: Janine has a habit of stealing food from the cafeteria for visual learning.
* OfficeRomance: Melissa Gary
* RunningGag: Making fun of Janine's walking
* SayingTooMuch: Ava money
* ShoutOut: mutant academy 27 hours
jacob robin williams
* SkewedPriorities: Gregory
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* AnAesop: Programs that prioritize some over others can end up making the others feel less than. This is especially true for kids, who might end up feeling that they deserve less
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"Gifted Program" is the sixth episode of ''Series/AbbottElementary'''s first season.

Janine has the idea of opening a gifted program in Abbott, to mixed results. Meanwhile, Melissa is thinking of asking out the snack machine guy.

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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Janine attempts to teach a student about subtraction using potatoes, only for the student to get distracted since she doesn't like potatoes.
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