In a parody of films like Dangerous Minds and Freedom Writers, Ego Nwodim plays a substitute teacher who’s determined to let her students know that their race and stupidity won’t stop them from achieving their dreams. The only problem is, the kids aren’t dumb and as host Megan Thee Stallion points out: “Miss? This is an honors-level physics class.”
Having unknowingly taken a job subbing at a STEM school in the city, Nwodim tries to play off her racial profiling of the students by bumbling through an advanced-level physics textbook and defining STEM as “Students, Together, E-chieving, Much.
In the end, Nwodim realizes her mistakes and in a passionate speech admits that its teachers who are the dumb ones.
“Sometimes they take a job, not realizing it’s a STAM school,” Nwodim says. “And sometimes that makes them say and do racist. But you can’t hold that against them.”
