Whether it is those who teach or those who learn, the school setting represented a signficant television community of characters. Schools have been shown in various shows but specific ones used the setting as a centerpiece. BAF welcomes back Early Childhood Teacher Krysti to review some of these programs through the decades starting with the 1950s sitcoms Mister Peepers and Our Miss Brooks. During the changing years of the 1960, 70s, and 80s decades, more urban settings came on the scenes with dramas such as Room 222, The White Shadow, and Fame, plus sitcoms focusing on the remedial classroom of the Sweathogs in Welcome Back, Kotter, the gifted-talented academic team in Head of the Class and the mix of sterotypical characters in Saved by the Bell. It is a full syllabus for discussion of schools on the air.
