Gregory: Why don't we get together after school... and we can figure it out?
Janine: Um, I would love that. You kidding me? [chuckles] Oh, my God, but, shoot. My boyfriend is picking me up after school today.
Gregory: Oh.
Janine: You know what? You can come hang with us. I mean, we're just going to IKEA. You can help us pick out a bed.
Gregory: Oh, okay. Yeah, um... Oh, God. Um... I actually have somebody picking me up after school.
Janine: Oh.
Gregory: She's a girl... She's a woman, I mean. Like, it's a car full of women and...
Janine: What?
Gregory: Nothing.
Janine: Oh. Okay, well, see you later. I'll see you around school.
Gregory: Yeah, yeah. Alright, you, too. Hey, enjoy the bed.
Janine: Oh, we will.
Gregory: [nervous chuckle] Ha!
Janine: Uh, I was just kidding. But see you later!
Gregory: Uh-huh.

Gregory: Okay, so if B makes it block, then C makes it what? [a boy points] Uh, not quite. Try again. [the boy points again] There you go. Good job.
[As Jacob passes the classroom, Gregory is giving a thumbs up to the student]
[aside to camera:]
Jacob: Wow. You think you know someone, and then they cheat on you with their thumb.
[back; after Jacob walks away:]
Gregory: Ol' Siskel & Ebert two thumbs up lookin' ass boy.

Gregory: [aside to camera] What do I think of the gifted program? I mean, look, if everyone's into it, then great. I just think the kids are gonna miss the end of the movie. But who needs the end of the movie? You know, movies are all about the beginning and then the middle and...

Gregory: Janine, when I was a kid, I didn't get into the gifted program. Like, not even close. It made me feel like school was only for kids who were good at taking tests, which I was not. So I checked out.
Janine: I don't know what to say.
Gregory: The point is, when you give some kids chickens, other kids are gonna get snakes. And if you get snakes for long enough, that's what you think you deserve.
Janine: And no one deserves snakes. I get it. So then what do we do?
Gregory: I'm just saying that there's more than one way to be gifted. Have you ever heard of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences? [Janine shakes her head] Okay. So, look, like, this kid here, right? He may not be good at math, but he may have naturalistic intelligence, which means he's good with nature. Okay. And this girl... She may have musical intelligence. And this kid... Okay, she's sleeping.
Janine: Yeah, she's out.
Gregory: Mm-hmm.
Janine: Mm-hmm.
Mr. Johnson: And look at that. This kid has custodial intelligence.

Gregory: It was a really good show. Very good.
Janine: Thank you. Thank you so much.
Gregory: Yeah.
Janine: Now I'm starving. Do you wanna go get some pizza?
Gregory: Uh, yeah, uh, pizza sounds delicious.
Janine: Okay. Um, what was your favorite part of the show?
Gregory: Oh, I would say the "five, six, seven, eight" portion where everybody got- Everybody got really structured.

Gregory: Hey! Superintendent Collins. You remember me?
Superintendent Collins: Gregory Eddie.
Gregory: Mm.
Superintendent Collins: Of course. You gave a really good interview.
Gregory: I thought so, yeah.
Ava: You interviewed for this job? Oh, damn! What happened?
Gregory: It's hard to say. But you made the right choice here with Ava. I don't even know how to DJ, so...
Ava: Why you being all weird? I like you better when you're stoic. Keep the mystery, boo.
Gregory: Great hire. Well-deserved. Really, really well-deserved. [laughs and claps]
Ava: Another Ava super-fan.

Jacob: Whoa. What's happening to music class?
Melissa: Well, the school pays for the music class out of discretionary funds. And since Ava lost her dirt on Superintendent Collins when he married the goomah, there's no way he's gonna fork over the cash like he has for the last three years.
Barbara: No more of the glitz and glam you lot have become used to.
Melissa: It's gonna go right back to the lean years.
Barbara: Mm-hmm.
[The refrigerator handle comes off in Gregory's hand]
Gregory: Then what are these?

Janine: There has to be a way to convince Superintendent Collins that we still need that discretionary money.
Well, all the principals have to present their cases for funding to the school board at the end of the week.
Jacob: How do you always know this stuff?
Gregory: I told you all this many times... I trained to be a principal.
Melissa: Mm, it's not ringing a bell.
Barbara: Mm.
Gregory: I interned at the Baltimore School Board for two summers.
[aside to camera:]
Gregory: I got my Master's in Educational Leadership, and I went through a program specifically meant to encourage young Black men to become principals. So do I think that Ava can learn everything that she needs to know by Friday? No.

Gregory: [aside to camera] I'm a full-time teacher now. I'm excited about that. I spent time going over the materials, so really got it down, so I'm ready to take the year on. These first-graders won't know what hit 'em. I mean that in a positive way.

Barbara: Hey... Oh. What is this?
Gregory: I mapped out the entire school year so I can meet every one of the district's mandated goals. I scheduled everything down to the hour. Now, I didn't allot for this conversation, so if we could wrap this up in the next... two minutes, that'd be very helpful.
Barbara: Well, I am very... Gregory, what if something goes wrong and you a get a millisecond off of this very... impressive map?
Gregory: I accounted for that. Imagining the worst thing that could possibly happen is one of my best qualities.
Barbara: But what if one of the students understands the lesson and another one doesn't? What if a cold runs through the classroom and several students are out for a few days? What if there's a snow day? Oh, and I see that you are getting Samir. I had him last year. Lovely student. Very intelligent. Have you allotted for the nosebleeds that he gets when he's excited?