“This is it. This is the last glue stick in the entire district. If we run out, my kids’ vision boards will just be… loose magazine clippings. Sad, un-glued clippings.”

Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph) is seen in her classroom, where she has a perfect, vintage, all-metal sharpener from 1987. She pats it gently.

“I’ll name it ‘The Eraser of My Enemies.’”

“That’s a marketing problem, sweetheart. You’re selling ‘educational enrichment.’ Boring. What you need is pity .”

“No. We don’t have money for glue. We don’t have money for paper . We barely have money for my salary, and I’m the most important thing here.”